Quote Originally Posted by Rover View Post
People should quit blaming the information and blame the underlying data. OK is undereducated and poor. It has a huge percentage of unhealthy people who get substandard medical care. It isn’t the fact that now people know this that is the problem. Instead of feeling shame and be determined to do something about it, many Oklahomans are proud of it and want to blame the reporting of it for people being in this situation. SMH.
Once again, life is how you make it. I suspect one reason Oklahoma is undereducated and poor is because too many Oklahomans grow up with the lack of confidence, they can do better than that, thus, explaining why Oklahoma ranks in the 40s in so many ways when it comes to the standard of living. I also suspect a good number of Oklahomans have successfully sought higher paying jobs, knowing if they don't try, they will never know, if they can have a much higher paying job.