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> It seems that the article is trying to intentionally mislead its readers to think that those 130M adults don't possess literacy skill in any language that the
by drewcoo 2y ago
> It seems that the article is trying to intentionally mislead its readers to think that those 130M adults don't possess literacy skill in any language that they use, while the underlying study only looks at literacy skill in English.
Yet the article says:
> It's not just people who are racial minorities. It's not just people who speak funny because they're from the South. It literally can be anybody
So maybe it's a matter of some readers trying to intentionally mislead themselves and others about what the article says.
- josephh 2y agoExcept that the 130M figure absolutely isn't going to be correct if adjusted for literacy skill of their primary language.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> the 130M figure absolutely isn't going to be correct if adjusted for literacy skill of their primary language Half of American adults speak English as a second language? Speaking anecdotally, dual-language learners are more likely to be literate than single-language speakers.