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Yes but 34% of adults lacking literacy proficiency were born outside the US. It seems to me that this is more a reflection that the US has the highest percentag

Yes but 34% of adults lacking literacy proficiency were born outside the US. It seems to me that this is more a reflection that the US has the highest percentage of immigrants of all countries on earth.

Tronno 2y ago
> 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level). From the link.
- wisemang 2y ago
  GP’s quote was taken from directly below yours.
  - latexr 2y ago
    > GP’s quote was taken from directly below yours. They completely changed their post after the Tronno reply, which made the replies look out of context. Their original post, quoted verbatim in my other comment¹, was: > It may be you who lacks the critical reasoning skills. Did you happen to think about the fact that 23% of the population is actually younger than age 12, meaning they wouldn’t even be in 6th grade yet? ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42757642 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42757642
BlobberSnobber 2y ago
Adult population is obviously implied. Love when the universe gifts us this level of irony.
latexr 2y ago
Edit: The parent comment completely changed what it said, making all replies look out of context. I’m leaving my original reply, which includes a verbatim quote of the parent, below. > It may be you who lacks the critical reasoning skills. Did you happen to think about the fact that 23% of the population is actually younger than age 12, meaning they wouldn’t even be in 6th grade yet? This is incredibly ironic. It’s 54% of the adult population, which is abundantly clear by the provided link (in a bullet point, it’s hard to miss). It only takes a minimum of good faith and critical reasoning skills to: 1. Realise that of course the statistic will not include people younger than the level used as the threshold. 2. Click through and at least skim the link to steel man someone’s argument.

Tronno 2y ago

> 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level). From the link.

wisemang 2y ago
GP’s quote was taken from directly below yours.
- latexr 2y ago
  > GP’s quote was taken from directly below yours. They completely changed their post after the Tronno reply, which made the replies look out of context. Their original post, quoted verbatim in my other comment¹, was: > It may be you who lacks the critical reasoning skills. Did you happen to think about the fact that 23% of the population is actually younger than age 12, meaning they wouldn’t even be in 6th grade yet? ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42757642 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42757642

BlobberSnobber 2y ago

Adult population is obviously implied. Love when the universe gifts us this level of irony.

latexr 2y ago

Edit: The parent comment completely changed what it said, making all replies look out of context. I’m leaving my original reply, which includes a verbatim quote of the parent, below. > It may be you who lacks the critical reasoning skills. Did you happen to think about the fact that 23% of the population is actually younger than age 12, meaning they wouldn’t even be in 6th grade yet? This is incredibly ironic. It’s 54% of the adult population, which is abundantly clear by the provided link (in a bullet point, it’s hard to miss). It only takes a minimum of good faith and critical reasoning skills to: 1. Realise that of course the statistic will not include people younger than the level used as the threshold. 2. Click through and at least skim the link to steel man someone’s argument.