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Estimates of the literacy level of the adult population are doubtless wildly over-estimated. There's a reason that newspapers are targeted at a seventh-grade r
by thrower123 5y ago
Estimates of the literacy level of the adult population are doubtless wildly over-estimated. There's a reason that newspapers are targeted at a seventh-grade reading level, or at least used to be.
Writing skills are even more depressing. Just laying out bullet points coherently puts somebody in the top quartile of white-collar workers.
- myko 5y ago> Just laying out bullet points coherently puts somebody in the top quartile of white-collar workers. I feel like a relatively intelligent person but I absolutely struggle with writing concise emails / docs that are well organized. It's an agonizing process and I feel my results are hit or miss with little inbetween.
- whoisthemachine 5y agoWriting good documentation takes time! There's no way around it other than practice.
- developer93 5y agoWas it Samuel Johnson who wrote "I would write a shorter letter but I don't have time" or something along those lines
- Tainnor 5y ago> Just laying out bullet points coherently puts somebody in the top quartile of white-collar workers. To be fair, that's not my forte either as my writing tends to be sort-of meandering at times. Just recently I wrote a longer message to my PM and he told me "yo, bullet points please".
- 8note 5y agoThe literacy and writing of my colleagues has always been good, but sometimes it's in a different language, and their English literacy and writing are not as good.
- Tainnor 5y agoThere's definitely a problem there in that we often assume that "fluent in English" means "mastery of the language", but these two are different things.