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Almost a paradox.
i think you've got to consider the audience. roughly 1 in 5 americans are ILLITERATE. about 1 in 2 americans read at a 6th grade level. it's easier to manipulate these people than a bunch of preschool kids.
QED
~~Improvised~~ Quirky Education Disclaimer
3/4 of a Northern California public radio affiliate (~~K~~QED)
And of course
TIL you guys don't use your own language for this
Say more?
In Italian we use an Italian initialism: CVD, Come Volevasi Dimostrare
This makes me feel simultaneously very good and very very bad.
How does it make you feel very good? Honest question - I'm a bit stoned
Oh I was born with a min-max build. While I am keenly aware of my deficits, I am also aware of my specific sharp intelligence. Mostly because I have to use and hone my specific intelligence to mitigate my disabilities to get over life hurdles.
It makes me feel good because, this means I have more of a chance in life than I believe I do. I should feel more grateful and more motivated. Which is maybe the only positive thing about such a terrible fact. That one in five people are illiterate.
I don’t like feeling I am above anyone however. I tend to greatly dislike like feelings of superiority, raw competition, or feelings driven by pure ego.
Ultimately, I was aiming for making an implied joke: haha wow i can absolutely read loool neat! Oh no, so many people can’t read….this is horrible…this is really really bad.
Illiterate as in, they can't read or write at all? I mean, how?
our schools have become child warehouses thanks to Bush's dedication to standardized testing, Obama's dedication to fixing the standardized testing problem not by saying "this didn't work" but instead focusing on getting more kids into charter schools, Trump's dedication to just simply ruining the whole thing by defunding and deregulating, and then Biden's inability to address any of the things that really mattered, instead focusing on traditional economic indicators.
the standardized testing was a response to red state teachers preaching alternative facts instead of giving their students real education
I gotchu these stats come from the 2012 & 2014 PIAAC, or Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (only done every 10 years so this is the latest data available but the next cycle/data set is coming soon)
18% are below level one, defined as;
With 4% of those being actually entirely illiterate
Breakdown
Actual methodology and whatnot
the usa withdrew from the UN's literacy program and data collection decades ago amidst continuous cuts ti public education. many kids in my state only have classes 4 days a week