The fact that some replies don’t understand the title of the article and some are trying to explain it is funny af to me, I’m sorry 😂
knew an old man who couldn’t read. he could write phone numbers in a notebook and remembered who it was by where it was written. no names. Fort Worth 1980.
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.
That is nearly 114,250 9/11’s worth of dumb people
What’s that in metric units?
Nearly 17 Holocausts
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.
Republicans at work. A dumb electorate is the easiest to manipulate.
To make it worse year by year the republicans continue to defund education, remove sciences, sex education and history from being taught in schools. While trying to force christian religion in public schools.
What a timeline America is going through.
Also to sloppify all media.
Damn this is pathetic. I had a 6th grade reading level in kindergarten.
And were smarter than the average american.
For clarity: this is based on piaac test results. The literacy test results are sorted into 6 categories (1-5 and <1) for comparing the distribution internationally. 54% of Americans score less than 3, compared to top-scoring Japan and top-english-speaking Australia at approximately 35% and 45%. The task description for level 3:
Adults at Level 3 are able to construct meaning across larger chunks of text or perform multi-step operations in order to identify and formulate responses. They can identify, interpret or evaluate one or more pieces of information, often employing varying levels of inferencing. They can combine various processes (accessing, understanding and evaluating) if required by the task . Adults at this level can compare and evaluate multiple pieces of information from the text(s) based on their relevance or credibility. Texts at this level are often dense or lengthy, including continuous, noncontinuous, mixed. Information may be distributed across multiple pages, sometimes arising from multiple sources that provide discrepant information. Understanding rhetorical structures and text signals becomes more central to successfully completing tasks, especially when dealing with complex digital texts that require navigation. The texts may include specific, possibly unfamiliar vocabulary and argumentative structures. Competing information is often present and sometimes salient, though no more than the target information. Tasks require the respondent to identify, interpret, or evaluate one or more pieces of information, and often require varying levels of inferencing. Tasks at Level 3 also often demand that the respondent disregard irrelevant or inappropriate text content to answer accurately. The most complex tasks at this level include lengthy or complex questions requiring the identification of multiple criteria, without clear guidance regarding what has to be done
I could not find which source originally cited level 2 as “6th grade” equivalent, though the oecd recommends against drawing that parallel.
This reads like a description of the D&D PHB.
…is that why so many people think they get an extra attack when they do something other than an Attack action?
I cast 5th level numeracy on the goblins, integrating them by parts.
Me Fail English? That’s unpossible!
And 21% of American adults are illiterate
If those Americans could read they’d be very upset about that!
TIL at least 46% of Americans can read.
It’s about 80% that can read. Only about 10% can understand the concept of a metaphor though.
Too bad they can’t read this article.
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.
