knew an old man who couldn't read. he could write phone numbers in a notebook and remembered who it was by where it was written. no names. Fort Worth 1980.
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Hot take but I think this article is hyperbole. Think about it. Half of adults are underachievers. That tracks with most metrics. Your average person is not smart. Intelligence follows a bell curve and it only makes sense that the bottom half is going to be terrible.
Edit: ok just realized this is the meme sub lol.
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I dare not find out what my reading level is, for the same reason I dare not find out what my IQ is. I don't gain anything by knowing it, and knowing that I'm stupid will only worsen my self-esteem issues.
I feel better assuming I'm roughly average for both measurements.
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That is nearly 114,250 9/11's worth of dumb people
Damn this is pathetic. I had a 6th grade reading level in kindergarten.
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What does "6th graders" mean? After 6 years of total education, i.e. at age 12; or 6 years of high school, at age 16?
Around age 12. Graduation from High School is at 12th grade in the USA.
This is an oxymoron. Technically it's the 6th graders who read like adults, since specifying 54% of adults causes them to be the standard here.
The adult reading level is not determined by what level most adults read at. The level most adults read at is the "mode". (At least iirc, median vs mode vs mean always gets me)
The adult reading level is determined by academics and whatnot. Im not sure if its just one org, NAAL for example, or if multiple orgs exist with varying definitions of adult level reading. But yea, the level of literacy an adult is expected to have with proper help or education is what they are talking about.
Don't get me wrong, you got the premise for a good joke or maybe even sitcom/movie tho.
That's higher than I thought
Easy, just take the elevator to the 7th floor/grade/level whatever you call it in Europe.