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Jen doesn't comprehend the problem:
Now w/fixed link!
It's always been illiterates vs us.
Reading is the metric, but the implications are so much worse.
This isn't about if someone can read articles and get facts, even literate people don't do that.
The problem is that reading comprehension is directly tied to one's ability to comprehend, manage and categorize information in one's brain. When you learn to read, you teach your brain to take complex ideas information and organize them into manageable sets and abstractions using language.
When you don't have this "enhancement" to your internal dialogue and cognition, you don't have a rich inner-voice if any at all, and you just go along with whatever you feel and whatever story is provided to you.
Make no mistake, the destruction of our education was deliberate and planned and it's working exactly as intended. If we try to organize and even get budgets passed to increase our education capacity, our teacher's pay, our textbooks and schools and so on, we will still be fighting far more wealthy organizations and corporations who want a population that stares transfixed at shows about people buying things.
If folks comprehended they are 1) oppressed 2) by rich folks 3) stealing from them 4) as a pleasure, we'd be on the communist utopia a century ago.
But no. I live in the psychopath utopia
Pff, reading...what are you, some kind of NERD!?
https://youtu.be/I1_6FlQfbho
Since 🇺🇲s are banned from watching this clip, I'm mirroring it here! Bill Hicks - Why are you reading for? (anti intellectualism)
plus math skills are only 9th grade for HSgraduate, and my math prof was being generous like 15years ago, and my english professor said 10th grade level of essay writing at best, around the same time. i think its alot worst now, since there less emphasis on many subjects. when i was IN CC, people were still struggling with remedial math, not even fancy algebra which i find easier to do.
Is the last one in absolute numbers or as a percentage or something?
Ratios. Anglo 🇺🇲 make up the highest illiterate race when compared to the rest. While everyone else means out, some know multiple languages, including natives.
The link gives "404 this page isn't available" for me. I did an internet search for it and just found this Wikipedia mention
Dunno if it's different criteria or what's up
My editor removed “-” in between the years, and the strings. Link fixed.
2019 is 6 years ago.
I found that earlier when searching on the site but didn't see any statistics about race on it. Where is it on the page?
I'm not sure this sort of stats change very quickly but more recent is of course better
I pressume it's the accessory source.
I can't find such info anywhere behind that link. I'm on mobile so it could be that
https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/2023/national_results.asp
You can look under ethnicity but I haven’t found anything that supports the claim made by OP. I assume it’s just in absolute numbers which doesn’t make sense. There are also numeracy estimates in the source, they’re also not great for the US ;)
Lol.... highschool...
High. School. High school.
(Criticizing the picture, not you 🙃)
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