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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to US News@lemmygrad.mlEnglish ·
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New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th-Grade Level

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New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th-Grade Level

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archived https://archive.ph/bP9BJ

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  • https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-literacy
  • https://www.crossrivertherapy.com/research/literacy-statistics
  • https://www.thepolicycircle.org/brief/literacy/
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    reading below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level[1][2][3][6]

    wtf is this shitty medium “article”. It has footnote numbersbut they’re not links and there’s no actual footnotes.

    Please dont post this garbage here.

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      Citations are linked at the bottom:

      Citations:

      [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2020/09/09/low-literacy-levels-among-us-adults-could-be-costing-the-economy-22-trillion-a-year/?sh=24ac605e4c90

      [2] https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-literacy

      [3] https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/08/02/us-literacy-rate/

      [4] https://www.crossrivertherapy.com/research/literacy-statistics

      [5] https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/14phpbq/how_is_it_possible_that_roughly_50_of_americans/

      [6] https://www.thepolicycircle.org/brief/literacy/

      It’s alright if you’re American though

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        Did they really cite a fucking reddit post

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          Top comment on that post is actually decent it seems, describing the problems with the numbers as reported by a similar study

          Why the fuck cite a Reddit post tho lmfao

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            Right, at least cut out the middleman and cite the study directly.

            Although on second thought if they wanted to provide examples of uneducated yanks, there are few better places for that than reddit comment threads. So maybe it was a good move after all.

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              next week’s article “we used a reddit post as a cited source in an article about literacy and no one called us on it”

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        Thats not visible. Perhaps its hidden for users who dont use JavaScript

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        A Reddit link was detected in your comment. Here are links to the same location on Teddit and Libreddit, which are Reddit frontends that protect your privacy.

        • teddit.zaggy.nl
        • teddit.hostux.net
        • r.darklab.sh
        • reddit.smnz.de
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      You can’t see them under the paywall, use the archive link dummy.

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