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How is it so high? Are these people immigrants from developing nations or something?
by kilroy123 6y ago
How is it so high? Are these people immigrants from developing nations or something?
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- AmericanChopper 6y agoIt's most likely a factor. It's also not too obvious whether those numbers are high compared to any other country, because it's one of those things that every country has its' own unique standards and methodology for measuring. For instance you might think that North Korea is the gold standard of literacy, at 100%, or you might think that they likely have some serious issues with the methodology they use for measuring that.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoI don't think its any more likely for an illiterate person to pass through the immigration system than it is for same person to get AWS certification.
- cwhiz 6y agoMost of the immigrants in the US are not authorized to be here.
- akiselev 6y agoIn what fantasy universe? In reality, there are about 44 million documented immigrants in the United States. The number of undocumented immigrants is a fraction of that.
- baseballdork 6y agoI don't think that that is the case. This[0] seems to suggest that the overwhelming majority of immigrants are here legally. [0]https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/07/12/how-pew-research-center-counts-unauthorized-immigrants-in-us/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/07/12/how-pew-res...
- psds2 6y agoFrom the https://nces.ed.gov/datapoints/2019179.asp https://nces.ed.gov/datapoints/2019179.asp link - "U.S.-born adults make up two-thirds of adults with low levels of English literacy skills in the United States."
- unishark 6y agoThey were talking about illiteracy. The "low literacy" stat is dominated by people at level 1, which is not illiterate.