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Just a word of caution: comparing literacy rates from different times and places is difficult because literacy isn't really a binary and the way people are judg
by lupusreal 3y ago
Just a word of caution: comparing literacy rates from different times and places is difficult because literacy isn't really a binary and the way people are judged to be literate or not literate isn't standardized. To compare literacy rates from two different times or places you need to figure out how each was determined.
- satvikpendem 3y agoIndeed. In North Korea, the population apparently has a 99% literacy rate but their government just defines it as being able to write your own name.
- pavel_lishin 3y agoAnd I'm sure a lot of people's names end up being whatever the Hangul version of "X" is.
- bigbillheck 3y agoSurely you could provide a citation for this.
- satvikpendem 3y agoNot exactly their name, I was misremembering, it was understanding a short sentence. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/PRK/north-korea/literacy-rate https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/PRK/north-korea/litera... https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/korea-north/#people-and-society https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/korea-north... (ctrl-F for literacy rate, it is 100%)
- bigbillheck 3y agoI think that's a pretty standard literacy criterion, and probably equivalent to "Level 1" in the US (which is in the low 90%s : https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179/index.asp#:~:text=Adults%20classified%20as%20below%20level,simple%20forms%20(OECD%202013) https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179/index.asp#:~:text=Adult....)