Someone did a survey of the Philadelphia area....over functional literacy. Fifty-two percent of residents are functional illiterate.
Then they went to the second listing....saying that 62-percent of residents function at the 6th-grade level or less.
I paused over the numbers.
It kinda means that of a hundred people finishing high school....the majority are probably only able to handle to the 6th or 7th grade level of comprehension. Yeah, I'm suggesting near three-quarters of society.
The question to ask....can these people even handle voting?
Across the US....like this? I wonder about that.
My question would go to the next level....of college-graduates...how many function as marginally literate (say the 9th grade level)?
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