Least and most educated states

[Two Checks]

I watched The Hunger Games movies for 37 hours straight and suffered a Heroine overdose.

Ba dum BUM. I oughta play the big rooms, I tell ya.

But to the original post, there is a Laffer curve reference in here somewhere. For example, East St. Louis has the highest property taxes in Illinois, and the lowest tax base. And the worst schools.

And, at this moment the ESTL teachers arein the 8th day of a strike for....MORE PAY!

[rodekyll]

The problem is that the article is trying to figure out which came first -- the chicken or the salad, and for criteria they're analyzing differences in the properties of which forks are used to eat them in a formal dining room.

In other words, the data and the discussion have nothing to do with each other, and the narrative is just words between a title and a disassociated list that the author didn't research, compile, or understand.  I think the only thing we can conclude based purely on the article, is that the author is a product of WV public education.

[O]

He had a very high probability of being cured but instead sought homeopathic solutions. He was diagnosed early when the chance of success was highest. He acted stupidly.

Even if it was caught as early as possible (stage 1A), the 5 year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is a mere 14%.  With such an abysmal survival rate, I'm not sure it's fair to call Jobs "stupid" for exploring all possibilities, and even excluding conventional methods.  Pancreatic cancer is very much a death sentence for which modern medicine has no means to provide a stay of execution.

Steve Jobs was a lot of things, including a rampant A-Hole, but stupid he was not.

(You can trust me.  I live in Massachusetts, I'm edumucated.)   

[eldoroddo]

Even if it was caught as early as possible (stage 1A), the 5 year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is a mere 14%.  With such an abysmal survival rate, I'm not sure it's fair to call Jobs "stupid" for exploring all possibilities, and even excluding conventional methods.  Pancreatic cancer is very much a death sentence for which modern medicine has no means to provide a stay of execution.

Steve Jobs was a lot of things, including a rampant A-Hole, but stupid he was not.

(You can trust me.  I live in Massachusetts, I'm edumucated.)   

My 85 year old mother-in-law was diagnosed with Stage 1 pancreatic cancer last December.
She was told she would most likely be gone by the end of March.
My wife would have no part of that.
She did days of research and put her mom on a strict vegetarian diet with vitamin supplements, alkaline water, and Rick Simpson Oil (RSO).
Mom is still with us and feels great most days. Her only discomfort is the bile duct stint they had to put in right away after diagnosis. She couldn't keep food down.
Eliminating the crap food that the FDA rates as "safe", consuming organic/natural food/immune boosting vitamins, and utilizing cannabis oil not only has kept her cancer from metastasizing, it cleared up her rheumatoid arthritis in just over ONE WEEK. No more bent and twisted fingers and sore knees.
I'm not sure what Jobs did, but this regimen works for us.

[Triple Jim]

Even if it was caught as early as possible (stage 1A), the 5 year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is a mere 14%.  With such an abysmal survival rate, I'm not sure it's fair to call Jobs "stupid" for exploring all possibilities, and even excluding conventional methods.  Pancreatic cancer is very much a death sentence for which modern medicine has no means to provide a stay of execution.

I read about one woman who somehow got the doctors to operate on her pancreatic cancer.  They had to displace several vital organs to get to it, and it took many hours, but at the time the article was written the operation was successful.  I wonder why that isn't done more routinely.  Clearly there's more to the story, but still...

[sib]

My 85 year old mother-in-law was diagnosed with Stage 1 pancreatic cancer last December.
She was told she would most likely be gone by the end of March.
My wife would have no part of that.
She did days of research and put her mom on a strict vegetarian diet with vitamin supplements, alkaline water, and Rick Simpson Oil (RSO).
Mom is still with us and feels great most days. Her only discomfort is the bile duct stint they had to put in right away after diagnosis. She couldn't keep food down.
Eliminating the crap food that the FDA rates as "safe", consuming organic/natural food/immune boosting vitamins, and utilizing cannabis oil not only has kept her cancer from metastasizing, it cleared up her rheumatoid arthritis in just over ONE WEEK. No more bent and twisted fingers and sore knees.
I'm not sure what Jobs did, but this regimen works for us.

Perhaps she was misdiagnosed.
There are rare examples of pancreatic cancer being caught very early and successfully cured by surgery.  One notable case was that of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.  She had an abdominal X-ray for some entirely different reason and the radiologist noticed a small spot on her pancreas.  Quick surgical intervention got it before it metastasized.  Lucky woman.

[jcctx]

It should be noted that "schooling" and education are often NOT the same thing.

[Lannis]

It should be noted that "schooling" and education are often NOT the same thing.

True.

Education is what remains when you've forgotten the specific things you "learned".

Lannis

[Tom]

I have to agree with Lannis on the "what" of this post.  I just threw this out as something to post and let the thread go where it would.  :-)  Good discussion on pancreatic cancer though.