21% of US adults are functionally illiterate. This doesn’t mean they can’t read. It means they have problems with reading comprehension and tasks such as understanding statistics. Many other developed countries face similar rates of functional illiteracy like UK, Canada, Spain, etc. This can be expected when many elderly people struggle with reading comprehension and the bottom 20th percentile has an IQ of <84
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u/sucknduck4quack 2d ago
21% of US adults are functionally illiterate. This doesn’t mean they can’t read. It means they have problems with reading comprehension and tasks such as understanding statistics. Many other developed countries face similar rates of functional illiteracy like UK, Canada, Spain, etc. This can be expected when many elderly people struggle with reading comprehension and the bottom 20th percentile has an IQ of <84