Its going to take a rocket scientist to figure this one out. And they are going to biased. Which will just add fuel to the fire. Thats just going to be too much pressure. I bet somebody goes ballistic before all is said and done.
Just cool your jets and don’t get all spacey on me. I realize they build rockets in Huntsville. I’m just trying to find out if there are any statistics that show they have the most PhDs per capita, compared to someplace like Oak Ridge. That place is the bomb. They have a population of about 25,000 (mostly nuclear families). It’s no Manhattan and kind of bohring, but they have great fishin’, although most of their television and radio activity comes from nearby Knoxville.
I’m not sure if your reaction is positive or negative, and I realize mine isn’t particularly…good (okay, I’ve depleted my puns).
So is the Huntsville/PhD trivia a fact, or just another real estate agent factoid.
Page 1-9 then shows Table 1.4 which shows that the percentage of Huntsville residents with PhDs is higher than both the national average, and in comparison with similar cities in the South. Washington D.C. beats it, and I don’t know how other cities compare, but there’s a start there.
Well quite besides the fact that he wasn’t advocating or discussing the killing of Obama, why not?
Why can’t it be used as a hypothetical?
Is the President of the United States ™ also off limits for, say, a research and physics problem of “Calculate how much energy is needed to send Le Prez to the moon”?
It seems to have been forgotten that this was a math class, not a class on civics or whatever where the rights and wrongs of assasination may well be discussed. The whole thing just sounds like a storm in a teacup.
Huntsville’s demographics are also right in the middle of several huge shifts: one, many of the children of defense contractors are now settling down and raising families of their own, and the % there with Ph.d’s or even advanced degrees is notIt nearly as high. Two, the upper-middle class population is shifting out into the county, and three, I believe the enlisted population in and around the arsenal has actually gone up, as base closures have moved more people to Huntsville. There’s also been a significant influx of Hispanic immigrants here in the last ten years.
I grew up there, and when I go back I am shocked at how the SE side has gone from nice to grungy, but also how the Madison area is starting to look like Anycity, Anywhere. Part of what used to make Huntsville distinctive was the lack of retail shopping, fine dining, or night life: it was very, very clear that everyone’s dad was an engineer. That doesn’t seem to be the case anymore, or at least not so strongly.
Yes, but how many of those PhD have been imported, like yourself? I’m fairly sure you’re not in Alabama because you had a deep desire for hot humid weather and sweet tea, but rather because the specific facility you work at happens to be there. Your employer is skewing the data for the state.
Oh I don’t doubt that. But my employer, and numerous others were set up/built/moved to this particular state because of the Arsenal and the rocketry etc. Yeah, I’d go as far as to say that most of us PhDs are “imports”, but we still live here, are counted as part of the population of the city and contribute to the life of the city.
I suspect, depending on where you set your population minimum, Los Alamos is hard to top. Wiki doesn’t list their % of doctorates, but the % of Bachelor’s degrees is more than three times Huntsville’s.
