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There is no level 5. There absolutely is a level 5. It was defined and measured in the survey. Both links confirm that. But then they did not break it down

by btilly 6y ago

There is no level 5. There absolutely is a level 5. It was defined and measured in the survey. Both links confirm that. But then they did not break it down in the reporting because few enough people fell into it for their survey to produce reasonable statistics on a per country level. Now you are correct that I should not have said "under 2%". But given that the portion of the USA at level 4/5 matches the international portion at the same level (both cases 12%), it seems likely that the portion of the USA at level 5 (which the survey was not large enough to estimate) is about the same as the international average (which the survey measured at 2%). Therefore even though the survey did not report a figure for the USA, it is likely that the real figure is around 2%. I stand by my belief that this terms of service is sufficiently complex that even fewer can understand it. You are right that the average Prezi user is more likely to be literate than the average American.

dahart 6y ago
> the real figure is around 2% This figure is meaningless, which is part of why they didn’t report it. You’re fixating on a number that doesn’t inform you. Whatever their level 5 means, it excludes at least 90% of the people who wrote large technical and impenetrable documents just to graduate from school, not including all the practicing lawyers, doctors, engineers, scientists, and writers in the country. There’s a disconnect between using the 2% number to represent any kind of literacy threshold, and reality. It may have measured something, but this “2%” does not represent a limit on number of people who have the capability to read Prezi’s terms of service. > I stand by my belief that this terms of service is sufficiently complex that even fewer [than 2%] can understand it. That’s unfortunate, I’ve failed to make a convincing argument. I was hoping to help you see more clearly that’s not what your data actually says, and is also contradicted by other data as well. The data isn’t wrong, but your interpretation is.

by btilly 6y ago

dahart 6y ago

> the real figure is around 2% This figure is meaningless, which is part of why they didn’t report it. You’re fixating on a number that doesn’t inform you. Whatever their level 5 means, it excludes at least 90% of the people who wrote large technical and impenetrable documents just to graduate from school, not including all the practicing lawyers, doctors, engineers, scientists, and writers in the country. There’s a disconnect between using the 2% number to represent any kind of literacy threshold, and reality. It may have measured something, but this “2%” does not represent a limit on number of people who have the capability to read Prezi’s terms of service. > I stand by my belief that this terms of service is sufficiently complex that even fewer [than 2%] can understand it. That’s unfortunate, I’ve failed to make a convincing argument. I was hoping to help you see more clearly that’s not what your data actually says, and is also contradicted by other data as well. The data isn’t wrong, but your interpretation is.