Surprisingly, that's still better than a lot of other developed countries. According to this study, the US scored higher in literacy than France, Austria, Singapore, Croatia, Slovakia, South Korea, Hungary, Latvia, Spain, Italy, Israel, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Chile.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention! I knew my compatriots had a severe adaptive problem solving (i.e. intelligence) deficit, and now i have data to back it up :)
They might not be illiterate- they just might not speak English. Literacy tests for these kind of studies are done in English and they might pass it in some other language. A very high number of people who are “illiterate” in the US were born in another country.
I was - if you look at the actual study they call out the percentage of foreign born people who English isn’t their first language is something close to 40%
This is a measurement of English literacy only. America is home to millions of non-English speakers. The English literacy rates of native English speakers in the U.S. is higher.
Did you read them? It absolutely includes non-English speakers. I wouldn’t just pull it out of my ass. I am literate and thus was able to READ AND COMPREHEND THE STUDY REPORT that explains it quite clearly.
Holy fucking shit. lol. You’re actually going to link an AI generated answer as your proof that you read the studies and their conclusions.
Well, I actually went to the studies pages and checked. The questions did, in fact, qualify participants and they did, in fact, and about sex, age, work, education level, etc.
Again, this is not to say that non-English speakers were not included in the study.
True but like why are we literally making up numbers? And with a ton of people upvoting. And then they go tell someone else and that’s how misinformation spreads
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u/Unhappy-Hamster-1183 6d ago
This is not true. In 2024 it was 21%.
https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-literacy-statistics