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New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th-Grade Level (medium.com)
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[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 10 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@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

Did they really cite a fucking reddit post

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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@hexbear.net 5 points 10 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"

[-] library_napper 6 points 10 months ago

Thats not visible. Perhaps its hidden for users who dont use JavaScript

[-] TankieReplyBot@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 10 months ago

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