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This is a depressingly utilitarian view of reading.

• PaulHoule 2y ago
  One you hear a lot of though. One of the bad startup ideas I see over and over these days is the mobile app that will summarize blog posts for you because you're too bad of a reader to read blog posts. There would be one to read tweets for your if Twitter would let you access the API. Flocking behavior around "neurodivergence" has it that people with the bottom 20% of reading skills (the definition of 'Dyslexia' if you believe Dyslexia is dimensional and not categorical, see [1] for background) think that 80% of people read as badly as they do. Myself I checked out 10 books a week from the public library when I was a kid and, internally, I think of people at the 20% percentile as bad readers in comparison but I've got enough insight that I didn't medicalize my son for being indifferent to reading. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7489143/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7489143/