Microblog Memes

5810 readers

2547 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
Be nice.
No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

845

submitted 19 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

175 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

The percentage of the population that’s illiterate is way higher than it has any business being.

Like “can’t read at an elementary school level”.

“There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics” - Mark Twain

Not in your link, but I found the same statistics as your link in another with a critical piece of information:

"According to researchers, 4 out of 5 Americans 18 and over possess medium to high proficiency in English reading and writing." source

These statistics, both your link and mine, may only be measuring literacy in English.

So looking to get a clue how many may have literacy in another language:

"Today, 13.8 percent of the nation's residents are foreign-born" source

So at least a percentage of those being counted as USA illiterate may indeed be literate in another language that isn't English.