Let me thank Aria Cahill for leaving me this link to this great chart which enables you to look up the rank of your state in terms of unemployment-and many other factors besides. In terms of unemployment, my state of New York remains elevated ranking at 34th in the nation.
http://www.topmastersinhealthcare.com/state-risks/
The highest levels are California, Nevada and Chicago. The chart gives you a lot more than just unemployment rates. It gives you a number of others including-for whatever reason-a state's ranking in getting hit by lightning.
It's hard to believe but NY ranks 32nd in getting hit by lightning but 3rd in traffic fatalities. Who knew that there's a much greater risk of being hit by lightning than being killed in a car accident in NY? Overall, our numbers aren't great-we also rank 41st in state mental health. Still Illinois seems to have the worst numbers-it ranks 50th in unemployment and 51st in mental health. California also has dreary numbers-49th in unemployment and 48th in mental health. I don't get it, California sounds like the best place in the world in so many songs-the Beach Boys, David Lee Roth, etc.
I mean we hear about California Dreamin not North Dakota Dreamin, yet ND has great quality of life numbers-they are of course number 1 thanks to all the natural gas fracking, however, their mental health is 12%. While many may well inveigh against fracking, for now it seems that ND has the best of all worlds.
I can't help but notice that many blue states seem to score poorly on mental health. Is there some causality here? It may be about smaller states vs. states with big cities? I don't think you can there too quickly. With Mississippi and Georgia we do see the interesting fact that they have very high unemployment rates-both in the 40s with mental health rates little more than 10.
Still Utah, as a very low UR-6th-with a very high mental health ranking-46th. What does all this augur? I don't know as correlation doesn't necessarily prove causality By the numbers, however, the best state to live in is South Dakota; it's unemployment rate is 'only' 4th unlike North Dakota which ranks first; however it's mental health rate is 1st in the nation. Number 2: Hawaii, so one blue state has good mental health. It may be then about big city living-though I for one love it.
I would think that Alaska would have poor mental health and seem to remember hearing that they had a very high level of suicides. However, according to the chart their mental health is 18th-about in the top third, much better than I would have guessed-because of the extreme in cold weather and so much of the year in total darkness-the rest with no night time at all. I am surprised that Maine and Vermont did so poorly in mental health.. Not one state in the North East did well in MH.
Maybe there's a MH expert out there who would gander some theories. I'm going to stay away from making anything of anything here. I see that Kansas has ranks 7th in MH, so maybe Nietzsche was right that knowledge doesn't necessarily bring happiness; perhaps ignorance is bliss in which case Kansas-the capital of such ideas as 'creationism', et. al.
Still, as long as we're quoting Nietzsche, he also argues that happiness is most certainly not proof of truth.
What's great about these kinds of stats is they totally frustrate any expectations. While SD has great MH and low UE, who would guess that it is 43rd in traffic fatalities, while NY is only 3rd?
http://www.topmastersinhealthcare.com/state-risks/
The highest levels are California, Nevada and Chicago. The chart gives you a lot more than just unemployment rates. It gives you a number of others including-for whatever reason-a state's ranking in getting hit by lightning.
It's hard to believe but NY ranks 32nd in getting hit by lightning but 3rd in traffic fatalities. Who knew that there's a much greater risk of being hit by lightning than being killed in a car accident in NY? Overall, our numbers aren't great-we also rank 41st in state mental health. Still Illinois seems to have the worst numbers-it ranks 50th in unemployment and 51st in mental health. California also has dreary numbers-49th in unemployment and 48th in mental health. I don't get it, California sounds like the best place in the world in so many songs-the Beach Boys, David Lee Roth, etc.
I mean we hear about California Dreamin not North Dakota Dreamin, yet ND has great quality of life numbers-they are of course number 1 thanks to all the natural gas fracking, however, their mental health is 12%. While many may well inveigh against fracking, for now it seems that ND has the best of all worlds.
I can't help but notice that many blue states seem to score poorly on mental health. Is there some causality here? It may be about smaller states vs. states with big cities? I don't think you can there too quickly. With Mississippi and Georgia we do see the interesting fact that they have very high unemployment rates-both in the 40s with mental health rates little more than 10.
Still Utah, as a very low UR-6th-with a very high mental health ranking-46th. What does all this augur? I don't know as correlation doesn't necessarily prove causality By the numbers, however, the best state to live in is South Dakota; it's unemployment rate is 'only' 4th unlike North Dakota which ranks first; however it's mental health rate is 1st in the nation. Number 2: Hawaii, so one blue state has good mental health. It may be then about big city living-though I for one love it.
I would think that Alaska would have poor mental health and seem to remember hearing that they had a very high level of suicides. However, according to the chart their mental health is 18th-about in the top third, much better than I would have guessed-because of the extreme in cold weather and so much of the year in total darkness-the rest with no night time at all. I am surprised that Maine and Vermont did so poorly in mental health.. Not one state in the North East did well in MH.
Maybe there's a MH expert out there who would gander some theories. I'm going to stay away from making anything of anything here. I see that Kansas has ranks 7th in MH, so maybe Nietzsche was right that knowledge doesn't necessarily bring happiness; perhaps ignorance is bliss in which case Kansas-the capital of such ideas as 'creationism', et. al.
Still, as long as we're quoting Nietzsche, he also argues that happiness is most certainly not proof of truth.
What's great about these kinds of stats is they totally frustrate any expectations. While SD has great MH and low UE, who would guess that it is 43rd in traffic fatalities, while NY is only 3rd?
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