I dare not find out what my reading level is, for the same reason I dare not find out what my IQ is. I don't gain anything by knowing it, and knowing that I'm stupid will only worsen my self-esteem issues.
I feel better assuming I'm roughly average for both measurements.
This is pretty much all you need to know about the state of the United States. It's being run by 10 year old imbeciles.
Only 54%?
X to doubt.
get out into the low income areas. if you spend a lot of time there, you'd probably be surprised to know the reading level is as high as it is.
That is nearly 114,250 9/11's worth of dumb people
Hot take but I think this article is hyperbole. Think about it. Half of adults are underachievers. That tracks with most metrics. Your average person is not smart. Intelligence follows a bell curve and it only makes sense that the bottom half is going to be terrible.
Edit: ok just realized this is the meme sub lol.
You have entire corporations, nation-wide that are backed by religious nuts and racists, entire state-sized organizations of assholes paid from the bottom-up, and unless science and education has the same backing, we will lose.
When's the last time a rock band was labeled a "science band", but you can name four or five christian bands without even listening to them?
There are entire record companies and publishing houses that do nothing but spread more of it, interest groups in the billions of dollars that circulate faith and blindness. Even philanthropy, and a yelling preacher on every corner, sometimes across the street from one another, hospitals, nonprofits, foundations, you name it.
Christianity and Judaism is so overblown in support, we shouldn't expect anything less than absolute ignorance. Look what's pushing it.
Where exactly are the Jews advocating for cutting educational resources? Jews in general perform far better on educational metrics than most other groups, and their whole religion is based on reading, study, and debate.
This is an oxymoron. Technically it's the 6th graders who read like adults, since specifying 54% of adults causes them to be the standard here.
The adult reading level is not determined by what level most adults read at. The level most adults read at is the "mode". (At least iirc, median vs mode vs mean always gets me)
The adult reading level is determined by academics and whatnot. Im not sure if its just one org, NAAL for example, or if multiple orgs exist with varying definitions of adult level reading. But yea, the level of literacy an adult is expected to have with proper help or education is what they are talking about.
Don't get me wrong, you got the premise for a good joke or maybe even sitcom/movie tho.
What percentage are those guys in the photos?
That is the smartest man in the world and the president
Damn this is pathetic. I had a 6th grade reading level in kindergarten.
And were smarter than the average american.
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