Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes
ThePantser@lemmy.world 1 year agoTLDR: old person went back to school and reads faster than younger people, thinks younger people don’t know how to read quickly.
Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes
ThePantser@lemmy.world 1 year agoTLDR: old person went back to school and reads faster than younger people, thinks younger people don’t know how to read quickly.
Hyperreality@kbin.social 1 year ago
Bit ironic that you don't seem to have read my comment properly.
Firstly, you missed the caveat about the example used being anecdotal.
Then you seem to have missed the bit about reports suggesting functional literacy is decreasing.
A quick google:
https://hechingerreport.org/americas-reading-problem-scores-were-dropping-even-before-the-pandemic/
https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-why-reading-comprehension-is-deteriorating/
ThePantser@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s the joke, but ok.