▲ 1075 ▼ Fascism bad. (thelemmy.club) submitted 6 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz 189 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] ameancow@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago About a third of the illiterates in the US just don't speak English. They may be literate just fine in their native tongue, but that rate captures English literacy. permalink fedilink source parent [–] tdawg@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago I'm not saying that that number is wrong per se but it would be better to see a curve based on age brackets If for instance 25% of adults are over 90 then it wouldn't be surprising if they couldn't read properly. (Not saying that that's true, just as an example) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago About a third of the illiterates in the US just don't speak English. They may be literate just fine in their native tongue, but that rate captures English literacy. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago I'm not saying that that number is wrong per se but it would be better to see a curve based on age brackets If for instance 25% of adults are over 90 then it wouldn't be surprising if they couldn't read properly. (Not saying that that's true, just as an example) permalink fedilink source parent
