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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/
  • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
    ·
    1 year 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]
      ·
      1 year ago

      Did they really cite a fucking reddit post

      • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
        ·
        1 year 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]
          ·
          1 year 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.