The 10 Dumbest Places In Arizona For 2024

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1. I didn’t see my beloved Casa Grande. Obviously, we must hopefully rank as one of the smarter cities. Where do we rank overall?

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   1. Michael, Casa Grande is number 30 on the list. Hope you have a fantastic Monday morning

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2. You should put kingman number one in the dumb column

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3. Where’s the Macy’s in Nogales? Oh right, there isn’t one. This article sucks.

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4. Guess Miami is too stupid to even be put on the list, ah what the hell, it’s a ghost town anyway.

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5. Your misuse of statistics to rate communities as dumb or dumber is both reprehensible and dishonest. For example if all of the residents of every community had diploma rates of 91 to 92% and dropout rates of 0% to .1% you would still give the cities a judgemental rating of dumb to dumbest based on the cold hard math when in fact they could conceivably be the smartest places anywhere to live.
   Also some of those towns are pretty small and “might” have a senior class average size of 5 for the last century. Then one year a student dropped out because he contacted the dengue plague and was unable to continue. The next year he came back to school and graduated 1st in his class. Yet, due to the small sample size, on the year he dropped out the dropout rate went to 20%. One outlier and your judgemental rating as dumb to some power of x suddenly increases more than exponentially. Worse, it will take several centuries of perfect dropout rates to reduce the average rate to a really low rate again that will still be much larger than the previous rate. How much bigger is .01% than 0%. It is incalculably larger. You should not be publishing any results of you deductions because you are not smart enough to detect outliers and other phenomena that must be accounted for. Now I admit that I’m being a bit harsh in saying so since the above analysis was in fact a fictional example created to illustrate the weakness of your judgements by not identifying and disclosing data outliers and other factors that would “color” your judgements. Back to statistics 101 with you.
   Also, your initial premises is shaky by asserting an unsupported opinion that the only way to measure the value of a place is by measuring the intellectual accomplishments of its denizens. But it takes more than academic achievement nto build a society. It takes brick makers and layers, stone masons, pottery makers,farmers and fig prickers to name a few.You get the idea. Without these trades we’d each have to do these things for ourselves. Whether a singer of songs or a maker of thongs we all work together to build our societies and each persons contribution is important because without it we’d each have to do whatever it is for ourselves or do without..

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6. Your response in defense of Arizona’s smaller towns is spot on and I agree. Thank you.

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7. You should do a survey on which cities in Arizona have people of the best character and what percentage .

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8. Man if Flagstaff ain’t the dumbest city in Arizona, I would hate to see the others. When I say dumb, I dont mean by school education

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9. This only proves what people had in past, but not what achieved. My father, for instance, didn’t have a highschool education. However, he owned a motel, a hotel, and 3 gas stations. Obviously, all his 4 kids went to college and with brand new cars for all us kids!! Plus, we’re all successful too because of his drive, not his education.

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