Comment on New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels

• Primarily0617@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The humanities are objectively useful. Grade school reading level as a metric is not.

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Grade school reading level as a metric is not.

    What would you suggest instead?

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    • Primarily0617@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No idea, but me not thinking up an alternative doesn't make it a less useless metric for supporting the conclusions everybody seems to be drawing

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      • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You started this thread by saying

        what’s the concrete advantage of the average person reading at a high level is, past some sort of weird elitism?

        and now you’re trying to point out that grade level isn’t a good metric. So is it that reading level doesn’t matter at all, or that the metrics we use are flawed? Reductio ad absurdum, Is it ok for an entire populace to be illiterate?

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