Do audiobooks count? I know that my wife, age 55, has not physically read a book since high school however she has listened to quite a few audiobooks.
Uptons_BJs on
You know how people say that learning retention is really poor? Students forget what they learn extremely quickly if they don’t use it. I remember all the hard work I put into learning stuff like calculus and trigonometry that I completely forgot. Ask me how to do integration and I can only shrug and say “google it?”
Well, the same thing is happening to literacy. It seems like plenty of adults are not using their advanced literacy skills once they graduate from school, so there is this global trend of adults having very poor literacy skills.
My suspicion is that this is an accelerating trend as a lot of adults have substituted reading with videos and what not. Like, back in the day, even if you don’t like reading, you’d have to read complex instructions and stuff. Today, you can just watch a video.
This ranges from Japan, where around 12% of adults have literacy skills below primary school level, to Chile, where more than 50% of adults have literacy skills below primary school level.
Now why don’t you exercise your literacy skills and read the article through this paywall free archive link?
Our education system puts more importance on students passing tests and making those tests easy. Teachers salaries are so low many of them have second jobs. School age kids move here from other countries and they’re so far ahead they don’t end up in the same age group. Unless, you know, it’s a wealthy area and then the schools are well financed and the kids are ready to move right on to college. This country is getting divided not only by misinformation but by the education system. The lower economics keep those people stuck in low paying jobs and ready to believe anything when someone says their circumstances are the fault of XYZ group. The wealthy group just keep raking in the dollars and telling the legislators not to raise their taxes and to cut social benefits and education dollars to change the budget.
Dry_System9339 on
Forgot or never could?
CrazyCoKids on
As someone who works at a front facing job with customers…
Yes. Absolutely yes. I’m shocked that the numbers are THAT low for the number of people who read at a primary school level or lower.
Gemmabeta on
To be very fair, 6th grade reading level is not that low.
Most popular fiction and layman non-fiction hover somewhere are an 8th grade reading level.
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Do audiobooks count? I know that my wife, age 55, has not physically read a book since high school however she has listened to quite a few audiobooks.
You know how people say that learning retention is really poor? Students forget what they learn extremely quickly if they don’t use it. I remember all the hard work I put into learning stuff like calculus and trigonometry that I completely forgot. Ask me how to do integration and I can only shrug and say “google it?”
Well, the same thing is happening to literacy. It seems like plenty of adults are not using their advanced literacy skills once they graduate from school, so there is this global trend of adults having very poor literacy skills.
My suspicion is that this is an accelerating trend as a lot of adults have substituted reading with videos and what not. Like, back in the day, even if you don’t like reading, you’d have to read complex instructions and stuff. Today, you can just watch a video.
This ranges from Japan, where around 12% of adults have literacy skills below primary school level, to Chile, where more than 50% of adults have literacy skills below primary school level.
Now why don’t you exercise your literacy skills and read the article through this paywall free archive link?
[Are adults becoming less intelligent?](https://archive.is/MNjtm)
Our education system puts more importance on students passing tests and making those tests easy. Teachers salaries are so low many of them have second jobs. School age kids move here from other countries and they’re so far ahead they don’t end up in the same age group. Unless, you know, it’s a wealthy area and then the schools are well financed and the kids are ready to move right on to college. This country is getting divided not only by misinformation but by the education system. The lower economics keep those people stuck in low paying jobs and ready to believe anything when someone says their circumstances are the fault of XYZ group. The wealthy group just keep raking in the dollars and telling the legislators not to raise their taxes and to cut social benefits and education dollars to change the budget.
Forgot or never could?
As someone who works at a front facing job with customers…
Yes. Absolutely yes. I’m shocked that the numbers are THAT low for the number of people who read at a primary school level or lower.
To be very fair, 6th grade reading level is not that low.
Most popular fiction and layman non-fiction hover somewhere are an 8th grade reading level.