SunriseChampion
Senior Member
My suspicion is that it is probably more tied to socioeconomic status (after controlling for race), There is of course the issue of correlation between race and socioeconomic status...
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That depends on the "race" in question. South and East Asians in the US tend to be of higher socioeconomic status...in a lot of cases of higher socioeconomic status than whites even.
They are thus more likely to have better health and education outcomes than other non-whites.
I don't know where Utah fits into this as I found that place and its people to be friggin weird af when I visited a few years ago and I know they are the centre of a particularly hilarious religion whose holy book reads like the...nvm, my secularism is showing. I'm just wondering if they teach creationism in schools there because what I'm looking at in looking at those rankings is that places that are more open to scientific study of the multiverse (go check out videos on multiple dimensions, it will break your brain!) seem to rank higher as opposed to, say, Alabama, where they quite likely teach creationism in a good portion of schools.
It may not have as much to do with socioeconomic indicators as it would in Canada or elsewhere. Though, we'd have to look at the correlation between socioeconomic status and believing in fairy tales, er, I mean religious belief. It's probable from what I can guess (and me being an arsehole that's what I would guess) that increase in religiosity correlates with decrease in socioeconomic status and thus educational outcome.