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Shocking Statistics on American Illiteracy
« on: December 12, 2024, 10:13:11 pm »
ILLITERACY IN AMERICA  (GOOGLE DOCUMENTS)

About 21% of adults in the United States, or 43 million people, are functionally illiterate. This means they have low literacy skills and have difficulty with tasks like comparing and contrasting information, paraphrasing, or making low-level inferences.

Here are some other literacy statistics in the United States:
    • 54% of adults have a literacy level below 6th grade. 
    • 45 million adults are functionally illiterate and read below a 5th grade level. 
    • 44% of adults don't read a book in a year. 
    • 20% of Americans read below the level needed to earn a living wage. 
    • 50% of unemployed people between the ages of 16 and 21 can't read well enough to be considered functionally literate. 
    • 27 million Americans can't read well enough to fill out a job application.
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Re: Shocking Statistics on American Illiteracy
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2024, 09:49:52 am »
When it comes to economics, I reckon the number to be upwards of 70%.
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Re: Shocking Statistics on American Illiteracy
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2024, 10:03:49 am »
Very believable. Just read the comments on a large social media thread. Very few demonstrate true literacy.
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Re: Shocking Statistics on American Illiteracy
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2024, 10:06:46 am »
Quote from: Lando Lincoln on December 13, 2024, 10:03:49 am
Very believable. Just read the comments on a large social media thread. Very few demonstrate true literacy.

That's not accidental.
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Re: Shocking Statistics on American Illiteracy
« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2024, 10:07:00 am »
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... illiteracy is a small price to pay for stopping Gloobal Climate Change.  What's the point of learning when the planet is on fire?

Phonics, grammar, spelling, and punctuation are systemically racist anyway.

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Re: Shocking Statistics on American Illiteracy
« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2024, 10:10:36 am »
Quote from: DefiantMassRINO on December 13, 2024, 10:07:00 am
... illiteracy is a small price to pay for stopping Gloobal Climate Change.  What's the point of learning when the planet is on fire?

Phonics, grammar, spelling, and punctuation are systemically racist anyway.

Not to mention reading, writing, and arithmetic.
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Re: Shocking Statistics on American Illiteracy
« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2024, 02:37:15 pm »
Quote from: DefiantMassRINO on December 13, 2024, 10:07:00 am
... illiteracy is a small price to pay for stopping Gloobal Climate Change.  What's the point of learning when the planet is on fire?

Phonics, grammar, spelling, and punctuation are systemically racist anyway.

DefiantMassRINO is reporting to the authorities everyone who isn't afraid, like he is.
After all, one degree change every hundred years or so is deadly!

Ironic that he displays irrational panic in a thread discussing "illiteracy".

http://Climate-Change-Cult.blogspot.com

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Re: Shocking Statistics on American Illiteracy
« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2024, 02:56:52 pm »
The Scary Graph compared to reality - perspective

Current temperatures:
Phoenix  - 65
Denver   - 50
Chicago - 27

ON FIRE !  EVERYWHERE!   O.M.G. ! ! !

Following graphs display PANIC CURVE, 3 degree scale

HUMAN scale, nothing to worry about.
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Re: Shocking Statistics on American Illiteracy
« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2024, 04:02:49 pm »


 tipping hat!! @corbe
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Re: Shocking Statistics on American Illiteracy
« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2024, 04:20:51 pm »
Illiteracy, of many kinds, is increasing because schools are devoting too many resources to nonsense.

Massachusetts voters decided to remove the MCAS standard exam as a graduation requirement for highschool.  They were worried about kids having anxiety attacks about failing.  What kind of anxiety attacks will those same kids have when it comes time for college, graduate school, or the work place?

They'll be high-strung, have short attention spans, be incompetent, but they'll be my bosses because their parents could afford to put them through college.
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Re: Shocking Statistics on American Illiteracy
« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2024, 04:33:33 pm »
Quote from: DefiantMassRINO on December 13, 2024, 04:20:51 pm
Illiteracy, of many kinds, is increasing because schools are devoting too many resources to nonsense.

Massachusetts voters decided to remove the MCAS standard exam as a graduation requirement for highschool.  They were worried about kids having anxiety attacks about failing.  What kind of anxiety attacks will those same kids have when it comes time for college, graduate school, or the work place?

They'll be high-strung, have short attention spans, be incompetent, but they'll be my bosses because their parents could afford to put them through college.

No time for eddycation, RINO, "the planet is on fire."  (< your quote)
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Re: Shocking Statistics on American Illiteracy
« Reply #11 on: December 13, 2024, 04:40:04 pm »
Quote from: ChemEngrMBA on December 13, 2024, 04:33:33 pm
No time for eddycation, RINO, "the planet is on fire."  (< your quote)
Gee, it looked like sarcasm.
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Re: Shocking Statistics on American Illiteracy
« Reply #12 on: December 13, 2024, 04:50:18 pm »
Forgot to add the dislaimer,  ////00000////.
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Re: Shocking Statistics on American Illiteracy
« Reply #13 on: December 13, 2024, 05:46:28 pm »
Quote from: Bigun on December 13, 2024, 10:10:36 am
Not to mention reading, writing, and arithmetic.

That is Reading, Riting and Rithmetic.
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