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

• Primarily0617@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨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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