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courtneyhoward: Hellooooo, SF. Among other things, it IS the best place to look for a baby daddy (donor, that is). missionbird: San Francisco smarty-pantses generic1: More quantifiable evidence that San Francisco is better than your town. Figuring out how to locate the smartest concentration of people in any one place is no easy feat. Typically, it’s either been measured by the proportion of college-degree holders or the raw number of college-degree holders that accumulate in a given place. Both approaches, according to Rob Pitingolo, an economics brainiac and 2010 college graduate, have flaws: “The theory that there is economic value to having smart people together rests on the assumption that smart people collaborate with each other. You could have a whole bunch of smart people in one place, but if they don’t interact with each other, what’s the value?” Pitingolo instead calculates what he calls “educational attainment density” by measuring college degree holders per square mile. Strangely enough, I don’t see Oakland on this chart. Oh. There it is.

courtneyhoward:

Hellooooo, SF. Among other things, it IS the best place to look for a baby daddy (donor, that is).

missionbird:

San Francisco smarty-pantses

generic1:

More quantifiable evidence that San Francisco is better than your town.

Figuring out how to locate the smartest concentration of people in any one place is no easy feat.

Typically, it’s either been measured by the proportion of college-degree holders or the raw number of college-degree holders that accumulate in a given place. Both approaches, according to Rob Pitingolo, an economics brainiac and 2010 college graduate, have flaws:

“The theory that there is economic value to having smart people together rests on the assumption that smart people collaborate with each other. You could have a whole bunch of smart people in one place, but if they don’t interact with each other, what’s the value?”

Pitingolo instead calculates what he calls “educational attainment density” by measuring college degree holders per square mile.

Strangely enough, I don’t see Oakland on this chart.

Oh. There it is.

Source: generic1
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    What is fundamentally important here, is the collaboration and interaction of educated people. But just as important is...
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    Hellooooo, SF. Among other things, it IS the best place to look for a baby daddy (donor, that is).
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    smarty-pantses generic1:
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