You are, essentially, describing reading comprehension which is tested in literacy tests. The easier ones can be skimmed, that is the point, someone can skim gr

You are, essentially, describing reading comprehension which is tested in literacy tests. The easier ones can be skimmed, that is the point, someone can skim grade 4 level material and get the gist of it. However, through some university level content at them and they may fail miserably. The people you reference may pass the easier tests and they should, but of course they will fail at the higher level ones because they didn't read/comprehend them well. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.712901/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.7129...