Talk:List of U.S. states and territories by educational attainment

Latest comment: 4 years ago by LumaP15 in topic Vandalism

Three states missing

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Alaska, Montana, and Wyoming are missing data. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:680:C002:EA08:203D:15E2:35E9:E8A (talk) 01:53, 9 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

Unable to verify data

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The sole reference does not appear to verify the state specific data. I'm only reading aggregate (nationwide) data on my end. Is anyone else having this problem? 2601:545:8000:B480:E8CF:5FED:B2C3:D98E (talk) 20:04, 16 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

You can use 'Add/Remove Geographies' to add the individual states. I just finished checking the data and corrected it, there were a large number of inconsistencies. You can save the query using a '.aff' file, how do I share it here so my work is verifiable? 2A02:A212:9286:7580:21FE:7A9D:C66:C6E3 (talk) 20:57, 16 May 2019 (UTC)Reply
Got it. Thank you. You could post it to a file share site and link that here, I guess. 2601:545:8000:B480:E8CF:5FED:B2C3:D98E (talk) 21:29, 16 May 2019 (UTC)Reply
The file can be found here: http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=52273321515418025366. It is a XML file with .aff extension. You can load the query using the Load Query button at the bottom of the main page: https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml 2A02:A212:9286:7580:3D95:9846:879B:B413 (talk) 06:51, 17 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

Unclear nationwide average

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Are the U.S. average numbers by population or by the number of states?


Joke edits

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Someone edited this so that Texas has < 1% high school grads, added "MEMES" as a state, etc. California is infinity percent better than Texas har har. https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/xls/cb12-33table1states.xls — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.217.137 (talk) 02:45, 30 March 2019 (UTC)Reply


Yeah now the top 5 states all say texas..? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.128.35.39 (talk) 17:54, 1 April 2019 (UTC)Reply

high school is not a degree

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It's a diploma — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.169.168.218 (talk) 23:26, 7 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

Someone fixed that. It now says "High School Graduate". 2604:3D09:A87F:FD10:6D75:9F15:2835:A403 (talk) 08:36, 5 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

methodology

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I don't think high-school figures are based on a 4 year 9-12 graduation %, but rather a % of people with a diploma. So the numbers likely include people with adult-ed high-school diplomas. Therefore, the article is a little misleading. There should be a sentence or two that explains this. --50.67.53.203 (talk) 07:01, 13 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Someone fixed that too. The article's title now says "by educational attainment". It says nothing about the means of attainment. 2604:3D09:A87F:FD10:6D75:9F15:2835:A403 (talk) 08:38, 5 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

No state of Wyoming and 2 Louisiana's

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subject says it all. Also, The source indicates percentages for Texas 25+ as follows: lt 9th grade - 9.1%, 9-12th 9.0%, HS & eq. 25.2 %, Some college 22.5%, Assoc 6.7%, BS 18.2%, grad 9.4%. Total is 82%

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Graphics don't match the spreadsheet.

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The graphics do not match the data in the spreadsheet. For example, on the spreadsheet, Wyoming has 7.9% with advanced degrees (rank 39), but on the first graphic, Wyoming is shown in dark color, indicating less than 15% and more than 12%. Bill in Alexandria (talk) 16:27, 29 June 2016 (UTC)Bill McGovern, Alexandria, VA (Bill in Alexandria).Reply

Three years later the graphics still do not match the tables. 2604:3D09:A87F:FD10:6D75:9F15:2835:A403 (talk) 08:35, 5 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

Ranking vs. Percentage?

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Why does the ranking not match the percentage? If you sort (e.g.) on HS diploma rate, this is not the same order as if you sort on the Rank to its right. --zandperl (talk) 14:19, 17 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

Mississippi missing

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Mississippi isn't on the list for some reason? Is there a reason for this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by SciarpaRossa (talkcontribs) 07:16, 9 July 2017 (UTC) Fixed. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chuckdevore (talkcontribs) 13:29, 9 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

Puerto Rico missing

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According to this: https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=CF

24.2% of people in Puerto Rico have a bachelor's degree.--64.237.228.16 (talk) 03:53, 20 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

The numbers are questionable

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I noticed that Tennessee was on top of the high school graduation rankings, which seemed suspicious. It looks like one user vandalized Montana's data, another user fixed Montana's and vandalized Tennessee's and other users have made edits since. I went into the original data source and realized that while the new number for Tennessee is higher than for its highest subgroup (white females), the original number does not match all people over 25 or any subgroup I can find either. That suggests that a lot of this data is probably wrong even for 2015. I no longer edit Wikipedia except to correct obvious vandalism and so I am not going to go through and fix all these stats but do want to call this to the attention of someone who might.--2605:A601:402A:8300:F8AD:1CBC:D53C:4281 (talk) 06:05, 20 September 2018 (UTC)Reply

Also for bachelors degree. No states are ranked 14 or 20. Then there are two ties for bachelors degrees numbered incorrectly. Arkansas 22.0% 48; Texas 21.5% 48; Mississippi 21.3% 49; West Virginia 19.9% 50; California 21.0% 50; 2604:3D09:A87F:FD10:6D75:9F15:2835:A403 (talk) 08:43, 5 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

Tennesse Missing

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Lee University shared IP here.

Tennessee is missing.

Why? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.189.255.117 (talk) 22:36, 15 November 2018 (UTC)Reply

Vandalism

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Someone keeps vandalizing this article (they keep switching Montana and Wisconsin, and changing the percentage to 0%). This article should be given a higher protection status. LumaP15 (talk) 21:59, 29 November 2019 (UTC)Reply