Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Scott Thomas in June 12’s Bizjournals … ’s smartest cities asked the question…”Which community boasts the highest concentration of

brainpower -- and therefore can claim to be 's smartest big city?”

It’s not my city…. Think it’s yours…? 

Apparently it’s Seattle . The survey found that:

-- Forty-seven percent of Seattle 's adults hold bachelor's degrees, the strongest proportion of college-educated residents in any big city. It's nearly double the average of 24.4 percent.

-- Seattle is second to Washington, D.C. , in the share of people with advanced diplomas. Twenty-one percent of Washington's adults have earned graduate or professional degrees, followed by Seattle at 17 percent. The national average is 8.9 percent.

Do you feel their measuring criteria were accurate…?  Thomas reported figures released last year by the Census Bureau:

“The rankings reflect each community's collective brainpower, which is tied to its residents' abilities to innovate, create, compete -- and make money.

A worker with a graduate degree earns 45 percent more, on average, than a colleague with a bachelor's degree, and 167 percent more than someone who never went beyond high school.”

How would you rate your city using the Census Bureau criteria?