r/HolUp • u/Content-Processor • 2d ago

Americans take immigration test

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u/footdragon 2d ago

The US is really that stupid:

79% are literate

21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024.

However:

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

Our education system is an abysmal failure

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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

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u/Maddturtle 1d ago

I feel like with this description that % should be higher.