It’s not an attack on you, or a value judgement about California.
The index ranks the state lower than the rest of the country. I read the definition and I’m speculating why that is. You’re saying “yeah, well, we’re awesome.” Sure? The state is obviously very rich. A technical indicator is not destiny.
First, it didn't sound like California had a separate sub-rank in the index ranking. That's why GP speculated it would be much higher outside of the US, and you also speculated why it wouldn't be very different ("I'm not sure California would rank that highly"). I also provided my reasoning why CA would be higher outside of the US, because it hasn't been pointed out that CA even had an index independent of the US. It wasn't to be "we're awesome." It was to provide the material reasons why I would speculate it's economic complexity would be high in the state level rankings. If the index ranking provided a state-level ranking, I would be interested in seeing that. I'm not able to find it navigating their site.
The index ranks the state lower than the rest of the country. I read the definition and I’m speculating why that is. You’re saying “yeah, well, we’re awesome.” Sure? The state is obviously very rich. A technical indicator is not destiny.