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When I worked with some NASA engineers from Alabama, I had trouble taking them seriously due to their accent! They were the ones getting stuff done, though. Statistically, Alabama ranks significantly better than California for both child and adult literacy. Are you perhaps a bit biased in your opinion of people from the south?

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This is a great example of Simpson's Paradox

Split across racial lines, AL has lower literacy than CA among each of Whites, Hispanics, and Blacks.

But because the literacy rate among whites is higher than Hispanics and Blacks, and Alabama is much more White than CA, AL's overall literacy rate is higher.

Alabama is over 25% black, which doesn't do them any favors from a simpson's paradox perspective. CA is 40% hispanic, and hispanics fall in between whites and blacks on literacy, so I'd expect this to more or less come out in the wash.

oof. Own goal.

Huntsville had the highest per capita Ph.D for a while due to operation paperclip.

The state is like 47th or 48th in education consistently. People are poorer, they live shorter lives, and lack access to basic services like hospitals.

It’s a sad state of affairs.

Most of Alabama is unlike Huntsville.

Lot of southern areas have massive differences depending on location. I life in an area that any hipster would love. Much of the rest of the state is hillbilly as can be.

Not if you include literacy in any language e.g. Spanish or English.

You are shadowbanned.

They're not shadow banned: they were explicitly banned.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31520597

OFF: But octonion just made a post, that I (and other people?) can see? I don't understand.

OFF2: I wish for a functionality that could make my own post gray/collapsed, if it is offtopic. I must risk points, and being actually banned (or just don't be offtopic) this way.

edit: I am just asking for some explanation about how things work, e.g. why GP said "you are shadowbanned", and what's happening, really.

Someone must have vouched for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33302111. I assume it was [dead] before.

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