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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 3 points 9 months ago

To me, this is the genius of Ikea instructions.

No words. None.

Just numbers.

Legos for adults.

If you cannot figure out how to assemble Ikea furniture, you're too stupid to be trusted... basically at all, with any responsibility for anything, imo.