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minibyte@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level). That’s for the US – Globally illiteracy levels skyrocket to 86%. source
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Ignoring the slightly superfluous ‘average’, but… Wow. I’m surprised. I guess there’s a lot of people in far rural areas, or impoverished, or just surfing is their life (California has the lowest adult literacy!), who never learnt to read.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 3 days ago
In CA the inland is full of dumb rednecks and the coast is full of smart immigrants.
CA probably has the highest literacy rate of any state…in Hindi, or Mandarin lol