Intelligence Density and the Creative Class

Doofus writes "The Atlantic has an interesting review of some open-sourced work by Rob Pitingolo about the comparative educational attainment levels of various metropolitan areas. While people are now capable of being far more mobile than in generations past, many people remain within 100 miles or so of where they were born. For the technology-partition of the creative class, this is less likely to be the case, in my personal experience. Do we technical people put interesting work and the concentration of human educational capital ahead of other considerations when deciding on a move? Or is it more complicated? Is it more about the fact that the creative jobs are where the creative people are?"

Comments

Re:it's more complicated

[DNS-and-BIND]

Yes it does. Mouth-breathers don't get into universities, most of them know better than to even apply. The vast majority of morons want nothing more from life than to drink alcohol among people who think like they do and practice their comfortable bigotry together. They are not aware that seeking diversity is the best thing in life - far from it, they actually feel better in homogeneous groups. Some people are just smarter than others, and universities are where such people are naturally congregated. Let me guess, you feel slighted because you're in an area slighted by the survey? It's a survey, it's objective, you're only feeling slighted because you're engaging in projection.

Re:I think it's pretty simple

[Bing Tsher E]

For IT work,

We were discussing Intelligence Density, not IT density. Now go change the toner cartridge on the LJ5 down in Accounting like a good little gnome.