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edit: sources from the link

  • https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-literacy
  • https://www.crossrivertherapy.com/research/literacy-statistics
  • https://www.thepolicycircle.org/brief/literacy/
  • loathesome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
    ·
    7 months ago

    Citations are linked at the bottom:

    Citations:

    [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2020/09/09/low-literacy-levels-among-us-adults-could-be-costing-the-economy-22-trillion-a-year/?sh=24ac605e4c90

    [2] https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-literacy

    [3] https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/08/02/us-literacy-rate/

    [4] https://www.crossrivertherapy.com/research/literacy-statistics

    [5] https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/14phpbq/how_is_it_possible_that_roughly_50_of_americans/

    [6] https://www.thepolicycircle.org/brief/literacy/

    It's alright if you're American though

    • Rom [he/him]
      ·
      7 months ago

      Did they really cite a fucking reddit post

      • AOCapitulator [they/them]
        ·
        7 months ago

        Top comment on that post is actually decent it seems, describing the problems with the numbers as reported by a similar study

        Why the fuck cite a Reddit post tho lmfao

        • Rom [he/him]
          ·
          7 months ago

          Right, at least cut out the middleman and cite the study directly.

          Although on second thought if they wanted to provide examples of uneducated yanks, there are few better places for that than reddit comment threads. So maybe it was a good move after all.

          • AOCapitulator [they/them]
            ·
            7 months ago

            next week's article "we used a reddit post as a cited source in an article about literacy and no one called us on it"