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archived https://archive.ph/bP9BJ
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/
Did they really cite a fucking reddit post
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
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.
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"