Ohio named one of the dumbest states in recent list

Safehome.org, a website specializing in “expert research to compare the
best options in security and safety” (per their website) recently published a ranking of the “smartest” states in the US, according to The Dispatch. For Ohio, the news is not good.

Landing at number 43, Ohio ranks among the ten-dumbest states on Safehome.org’s ranking. The website looked at information such as bachelor’s degrees and college prep scores while creating their list, which named New Jersey as the “smartest” state and placed Idaho last.

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According to Safehome’s research, 17% of adults in Ohio age 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree. The state’s graduation rate is 84%, while the average SAT score was 1,097 in 2018-19.

“While we believe things like having high test scores and earning academic degrees represent one way of understanding and quantifying how smart someone is, we acknowledge that we’re not taking into account things like emotional intelligence or common sense,” Safehome says in the conclusion of its study.

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