I just read a study on AOL that 1 in 7 U.S. adult is illiterate. Is it just me or is that a staggeringly high number? I'm afraid to even go and see how that compares to other nations. How is that even possible?
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I just read a study on AOL that 1 in 7 U.S. adult is illiterate. Is it just me or is that a staggeringly high number? I'm afraid to even go and see how that compares to other nations. How is that even possible?
And 5 out of every 4 people don't understand statistics.
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I haven't seen the study, but I suppose they define "illiterate" as some minimum level, which is somewhere higher than absolute inability to read anything. A certain grade level, I'd guess. Wouldn't surprise me if 1/7 of adults have trouble reading, say, Stephen Hawking and comprehend much of it.
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I haven't seen the study, but I suppose they define "illiterate" as some minimum level, which is somewhere higher than absolute inability to read anything. A certain grade level, I'd guess. Wouldn't surprise me if 1/7 of adults have trouble reading, say, Stephen Hawking and comprehend much of it.
I'd have to check into it, but I'm thinking they are figuring in the illegals. I thought I read that somewhere.
I'd have to check into it, but I'm thinking they are figuring in the illegals. I thought I read that somewhere.
But - NO, Stew, that doesn't surprise me at all.
I'm not surprised by this statistic, either.
I'm appalled when I read over some of the resumes I receive, from alleged college graduates!
Seems that mediocrity is the new standard of excellence.
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I'm appalled when I read over some of the resumes I receive, from alleged college graduates!
Seems that mediocrity is the new standard of excellence.
I agree.
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It's not surprising at all. We lowered the bar for athletes and a few others. And this is the result.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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