In high school, I always thought the kids sounding out words like "the" were just taking the piss and doing it on purpose. I see now that was genuine. π
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That's higher than I thought. Aren't newspapers written at around third or fourth grade levels?
God, no. Even tabloids are generally written at an 8th grade+ level.
I had to look it up because of your comment. It's been over a decade since I dealt with anything in the AP Style Guide or adjacent. Fortunately, you are correct.
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In healthcare, all of our education material for patients is at a 5th grade level.
I mean, that's a whole different topic. Documents and info material everyone should have access to need to be inclusive so even your average Fox News viewer can read it.
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Not surprising h their president can hardly read
How do you test a reading level? Like for me it was always you either can read and understand or you canβt. What differentiates reading levels from grade to grade?
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And they all get votes
I dare not find out what my reading level is, for the same reason I dare not find out what my IQ is. I don't gain anything by knowing it, and knowing that I'm stupid will only worsen my self-esteem issues.
I feel better assuming I'm roughly average for both measurements.
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Yeah, no shit. gestures generally toward the DC area
You have entire corporations, nation-wide that are backed by religious nuts and racists, entire state-sized organizations of assholes paid from the bottom-up, and unless science and education has the same backing, we will lose.
When's the last time a rock band was labeled a "science band", but you can name four or five christian bands without even listening to them?
There are entire record companies and publishing houses that do nothing but spread more of it, interest groups in the billions of dollars that circulate faith and blindness. Even philanthropy, and a yelling preacher on every corner, sometimes across the street from one another, hospitals, nonprofits, foundations, you name it.
Christianity and Judaism is so overblown in support, we shouldn't expect anything less than absolute ignorance. Look what's pushing it.
Science shouldn't be compared to religion. On one hand because the doctrine of non-overlapping magesteria which all religions should follow (it can be summed up as anything Science has a say in, religion shouldn't). But also like science shouldn't bother competing here. When science is treated as religion, it's often abused similarly. Its a method for understanding the world.
The fact that pv=nRT is provable and if I go and get rudimentary equipment to do this I can double check without any scientists present. Sure there are stories associated with science, but unlike in religion they aren't the stuff its made of. Science doesn't ask for praise or belief, it asks for skepticism, curiosity, and precision.
Edit: wait, does Muse's album "the second law" count as science rock? It slapped and was about thermodynamics to a certain degree
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87.4% graduate high school, then people stop being forced to read books and those who never liked reading get out of practice
I'm curious what you think graduating high school has to do with being able to read.
It's the cut off point where folks generally stop being forced to read things more complex than IDK a Wendy's menu.
I genuinely do not understand why people do not like reading. Im not a super nerd and only read a few books a year but I look at the hours i spent reading those books as some of the best entertainment i've had all year.
It's a time commitment I'd rather fill with masturbation and videogames.
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Only 54%?
X to doubt.
Easy, just take the elevator to the 7th floor/grade/level whatever you call it in Europe.
That's good news! ... it means they're improving! USA! USA! USA!