Ask Lemmy

27063 readers

3181 users here now

A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions

Please don't post about US Politics. If you need to do this, try [email protected]

Rules: (interactive)

1) Be nice and; have fun

Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them

2) All posts must end with a '?'

This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?

3) No spam

Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.

4) NSFW is okay, within reason

Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either [email protected] or [email protected]. NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].

5) This is not a support community.

It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email [email protected]. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.

Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.

Partnered Communities:

Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

167

Are Americans more prone to conspiracy theories than people in other countries? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 10 months ago by someguy3 to c/asklemmy

137 comments fedilink hide all child comments

It's wild.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There are different reading levels, but I don't know a lot about them because I'm not in education.

You can probably recognize it even if you never thought about it before. "See spot run" or "Green eggs and ham" are very simple texts. Something like "the Great Gatsby" or "the Hobbit" are more complex, and a 2nd grader would struggle to read them even if they technically know how to read.

Technical manuals, works on a specialist topic, or .. my knowledge fails me a little here, but like more complicated novels, may be more advanced. More advanced in vocabulary, sentence structure, and things like symbolism, metaphor, or whatever cool shit House of Leaves was doing.

I don't know how legit this site is, but it seems to cover the topic https://www.weareteachers.com/reading-levels/

I think this is a sample of a text written at the 6th grade level https://www.oxfordonlineenglish.com/english-level-test/reading . I looked it up when that article about how most adults can't read and comprehend at that level was going around.

[–] anarchy79 -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Great Gatsby is shit, and the Hobbit is even worse. It doesn't affect the situation here, but just wanted to make sure we're on the same page.

So reading level is basically a stupidity meter. If you can read this text, you're a moron. But you're less of a moron if you can read this text.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't think we're really on the same page. Literacy and intelligence aren't the same thing. But if you take nothing else away from this, I think you got the "higher reading levels are more complex" thing. Maybe.

Also I think you have a typo and one of your can should be can't

[–] anarchy79 -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Bold of you to assume I have a point, and that's not a typo. That's the duality of existence.