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

• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Grade school reading level as a metric is not.

  What would you suggest instead?

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  • Primarily0617@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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