Talk:List of U.S. states by HDI

There is something wrong with these numbers. The US overall average is higher than the average for any of the states or regions, and only 6 states are higher than it. Something must be methodologically unexpected here, I'm assuming that the data used in the calculations are out of date, which would be fine but needs to be explained. Without sources or methodology, I think the article as is needs to be fixed or deleted. Jmcdon10 (talk) 03:04, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
 * This is a fairly stupid article. Not only does it apply needlessly some form of american exceptionalism because it doesn't use the normal, regular HDI, it also is arithmetically challenged: the stated average is too high, the real average should be 9.299. So, it has three problems: [1] a political problem, because apparently its numbers are artificially adjusted to make them way higher than any other country. [2] a presentation problem, it's pretty ludicrous to insert the average between place 6 and 7 in a list of rather evenly spread 50 states. [3] an arithmetic problem, the actual, real average is 9.299, not what's reported, so I've corrected that one. We could adjust the list back to regular measures by subtracting .02 from the HDI of each state.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by CrashTestSmartie (talk • contribs) 13:23, 1 January 2013 (UTC)


 * I noticed that some of the states above the national average, so I did a quick calculation of population totals, but that's still only 1/3 of the population being above that average. Also, this article is set up really poorly (compare this article to this one, which is the same, but with Indian states. --Rfilmyer (talk) 00:58, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, it seems odd that only 6 states are higher than the average. Also, it's odd that all states are in the "Very High" category, when Argentina's equivalent has everything above 0.9 listed as "Very High", and below 0.9 as just "High". One of these articles should be changed to be consistent. (And also, the map, sortable table stuff, etc, is all nice too) 66.220.144.74 (talk) 21:29, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Something is definitely amiss, since according to the 2011 report, the US GDP is 0.910, so I honestly have no idea where this average is coming from (it's higher even than Norway, the top country for 2011 at .943). KBurchfiel (talk) 05:46, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Where do these HDI numbers come from? There is only one site given for reference, but it's to a site that gives a different scale to the HDI index (one that this article specifically says it does not use). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.72.157.96 (talk) 02:48, 23 April 2012 (UTC)