No exaggeration, the average American adult reads at an 8th grade level (13 year olds). Nearly 1/4 are illiterate, while nearly half have low literacy. And our scores broken out by skills skew particularly bad on critical analysis and inference
(Honestly I forget how USonian grades work) It’s honestly amazing that an ostensibly ‘developed’ country can even function in this situation. I guess the US doesn’t really function at all and it’s just superprofits keeping them afloat.
The majority of them are just functionally illiterate. In general.
No exaggeration, the average American adult reads at an 8th grade level (13 year olds). Nearly 1/4 are illiterate, while nearly half have low literacy. And our scores broken out by skills skew particularly bad on critical analysis and inference
American culture and education do everything in their power to suppress all critical thinking.
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It can be very eye opening. Anti-intellectualism runs deep here.
It’s up to 8th Grade now? :P
(Honestly I forget how USonian grades work) It’s honestly amazing that an ostensibly ‘developed’ country can even function in this situation. I guess the US doesn’t really function at all and it’s just superprofits keeping them afloat.