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[Philly]

www.statisticbrain.com/number-of-americ ... cant-read/

Maybe different standards of literacy?

[John Galt]

[Philly]

Proficiency has to be a part of it. You wouldn't call someone literate just because they can spell cat if that's all they can do, even though they can read and write that one word.

[John Galt]

yeah. i dunno Philly. i just know that it's ranked at 99.98% since 2008. in 1993 it was around 96%. that's all i know about it, which is startlingly different than dylan's pic

[eric]

[eric]

Also, apparently Apple is taking down vidya gaymes with a confederate flag in them, and bookstores are pulling books with the confederate flag on the cover off the shelf.

It's like a real life South Park episode.

[Dylan]

Let's take a hell hole like South Carolina. South Carolina has a serious shortage of educated workers because, well, it's in the South. South Carolina has a population of 4.8 million. Let's say the straggling 10% were educated in the North instead of the South by some fluke, and they thus ended up with a real education instead of a crash course on Nascar, Budweiser and Grizzly chew.

That would be 480,000 more educated workers to fill the gap in South Carolina's workforce.

That's a huge deal. 480,000 intelligent people >>>>>>>>>>>> 480,000 people who are, sadly, illiterate (or, by one measurement or another, below par for reading and writing, as galt pointed out).

[Philly]

[eric]

Why is it not 10% more?

[Dylan]