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New Literacy Statistics Just Dropped, and it's grim. 50% of Americans read so poorly that they are unable to perform simple tasks such as reading prescription drug labels (www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com)
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[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

Another way that you can watch the degredation of the American brain over time is by looking at the Flesch-Kincaid reading levels of major Presidential speeches over time.