Yeah we elected one in to the presidential office too
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That's higher than I thought. Aren't newspapers written at around third or fourth grade levels?
At this rate, in about a decade, tabloids will be formatted like comics with more pictures than words to make it easier for people
God, no. Even tabloids are generally written at an 8th grade+ level.
I had to look it up because of your comment. It's been over a decade since I dealt with anything in the AP Style Guide or adjacent. Fortunately, you are correct.
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In high school, I always thought the kids sounding out words like "the" were just taking the piss and doing it on purpose. I see now that was genuine. 😔
Not surprising h their president can hardly read
How do you test a reading level? Like for me it was always you either can read and understand or you can’t. What differentiates reading levels from grade to grade?
Did you start reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason the instant you learned to read?
Another comment here gives an example of how a 6th grade reading comprehension test could be formulated. Essentially, it's about how complex sentences you can parse, and how large your "context window" is while reading.
Imagine a small child just learning to read. They struggle with every word, so if a sentence grows more complex than "The dog is brown.", they simply can't get to the end of the sentence while still remembering what the start was about. This also applies at a higher level: Keeping track of a complex "scene" which describes a setting while also describing dialogue between characters and inner dialogue in parallel requires more cognitive effort than the simpler "scenes" in children's books. A higher reading level means you spend less cognitive effort reading and understanding the words and sentences, so you have more cognitive capacity in reserve to actually understand the full picture.
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And 21% of American adults are illiterate
Too bad they can’t read this article.
What does "6th graders" mean? After 6 years of total education, i.e. at age 12; or 6 years of high school, at age 16?
Around age 12. Graduation from High School is at 12th grade in the USA.
Yeah, no shit. gestures generally toward the DC area
That is nearly 114,250 9/11's worth of dumb people
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.
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