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[–] [email protected] 54 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (26 children)

This explains a lot of the behavior of the lost libs that stumble in here like the guy yesterday demanding exhaustive sources and when provided with such simply said "I ain't reading all that".

More than 80% of Americans are functionally illiterate

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

to expand on this, according to PIAAC, 1 in 5 yankees cannot reliably answer questions of this level

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I'm sorry what

Edit: How is this possible, I mean

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