r/MurderedByWords • u/Bitter-Gur-4613 • Jan 02 '25

#1 Murder of Week Brutal ratio holy shit

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u/Eliteguard999 Jan 02 '25

“Five years olds can read” but the age 50+ customers at my grocery store I manage can’t read a sign to save their fucking lives.

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u/Ordinary_Delay_1009 Jan 02 '25

Half of America is effectively illiterate.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '25

54% read at or below a 6th grade level. They would struggle to read and understand the first Harry Potter book. And I can hear a retort now, "but the average American reads 12 books per year" or some shite.

When you see stats like "the average American reads 12 books per year" they are skewed by people like my wife and I who read on a decent year between 60 to 100 books.

Here's the Forbes article:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2020/09/09/low-literacy-levels-among-us-adults-could-be-costing-the-economy-22-trillion-a-year/