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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ One thing that is unusual in DC is that given its nature of being home to so much policy, research and analysis, [b]there are more PhD's per capita in DC than there are in just about any other city in the US.[/b]  And, a significant percentage of them are white.  And, quite likely, in those highly-educated households, education is heavily emphasized and reinforced at home.  As such, it would stand to reason that many of the white kids in DC who come from those households would score quite highly.  As opposed to a white blue collar community in coal mining country, where the white kids aren't anywhere near as likely to come up with similar high scores.  There are a lot of factors involved.[/quote]

I don't think this is true. It used to be, anyhow, that the place with the largest number of PhDs per capita in the U.S. was Los Alamos, followed by Bethesda.There are far more PhD requiring jobs at the NIH, NCI, Army Research Labs, Naval testing site, 270 biotech corridor firms than in all the DC think tanks and most of the people in those MD based PhD requiring jobs live in Montgomery County, not the District. And a much greater proportion of them than you seem to think are not white.

In general, this perseverative need to conflate race and the appeal of a school and educational attainment is goofy.

Although we all have our biases and in regards to the comparisons of educational performance of affluent kids in the DC area vs. elsewhere, I agree education outstrips income here by a lot and I don't find it remarkable that the kid of an NIH scientists and UMD professor would have much higher test scores than those of a much wealthier stock brokers kid in the NYC suburbs.[/quote]

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