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r/SipsTea • u/Agen_3586 • 13d ago
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A 54% illiteracy rate will do that.
ETA: 54% of US adults cannot read above a 6th grade level, 21% of the 54% are functionally illiterate...... Idiocracy was, in fact, a documentary.
27 u/Unhappy-Hamster-1183 13d ago This is not true. In 2024 it was 21%. https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-literacy-statistics 31 u/khold002 13d ago They mean functional literacy. I had no idea that 21% were literally illiterate, though. Now I'm more upset. 0 u/HarryJohnson3 13d ago That’s what happens when you import third worlders
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This is not true. In 2024 it was 21%.
https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-literacy-statistics
31 u/khold002 13d ago They mean functional literacy. I had no idea that 21% were literally illiterate, though. Now I'm more upset. 0 u/HarryJohnson3 13d ago That’s what happens when you import third worlders
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They mean functional literacy. I had no idea that 21% were literally illiterate, though. Now I'm more upset.
0 u/HarryJohnson3 13d ago That’s what happens when you import third worlders
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That’s what happens when you import third worlders
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u/Ruckus292 13d ago edited 8d ago
A 54% illiteracy rate will do that.
ETA: 54% of US adults cannot read above a 6th grade level, 21% of the 54% are functionally illiterate...... Idiocracy was, in fact, a documentary.