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Glaser konstaterer i sin anmeldelse af "''The Rise of the Creative Class''", at "''the gay population has a negative impac''t", med andre ord det stik modsatte af Floridas påstand, og at "''there is no evidence to suggest that there is anything to this diversity or Bohemianism, once you control for human capital.''"<ref>Glaeser: Review</ref><br/>
Steven Malanga har efterprøvet Floridas udsagn på dennes eget datagrundlag on konstaterer, at tværtimod Floridas påstande viser det sig, at de byer, som rangerer som de mest "kreative" nærmest underpræsterer de mindst "kreative" med hensyn til jobskabelse:
:"''..since 1993, cities that score the best in Florida's analysis have actually grown no faster than the overall U.S. jobs economy, increasing their employment base by only slightly more than 17 percent .. his top cities haven't even outpermormed his bottom ones''" (og om disse bundplacerede byer: "''.. Florida's ten cities turn out to be jobs powerhouses, adding more than 19 percent to their job totals since 1993 - faster growth even than the national economy.''" Han fortsætter: "''Jobs data going back 20 years, to 1983, show that Florida's top ten cities as a group actually do worse, lagging behind the national economy by several percentage points, while his so-called least creative cities continue to look like jobs powerhouses, expanding 60 percent faster than his most creative cities during the same period.''" Han sammenligner med en undersøgelse foretaget af "National Commission on Entrepreneurship" i 2001 kaldet "Mapping America's Entrepreneurial Landscape", der viser grove fejl i Floridas metode. Ydermere konstaterer han, at Floridas "kreative" byer ikke blot ikke er i stand til at tillokke kreative personer men endda mister dem, de har. At byerne alligevel vokser, skyldes tilkomst af ukvalificerede migranter og han konstaterer, at "''the U.S. residents they loose are, by and large, better educated and wealthier than the migrants they attract.''"<ref>Malanga</ref>
 
Florida har i forhold til Malanga senere forsøgt at forsvare sig med, at det afgørende ikke er antallet af nye job, men derimod hvor godt lønnet de er, der er afgørende.<ref>Florida: "Revenge of the squelchers" (''The Next American City'', Issue 5, july 2004)</ref> Heller ikke det argument har stået uimodsagt. Klaus Mortensen har påpeget, at "''det er langtfra sikkert, at der vil være en lønmæssig polarisering mellem de kreative og de ikke-kreative''" og uddyber: