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Was talking with prof about this essay and he pointed out to me that literacy loss has created whole generations of people unable to access their culture or past. College diploma holders who are incapable of reading the Bible https://open.substack.com/pub/kittenbeloved/p/college-english-majors-cant-read?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Here these college students, English MAJORS, some of them, were asked to read Dickens and describe what was happening in modern language. They were so bad at it the facilitator was sniggering while administering the test

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almost had an aneurysm reading a cast today, thought the person was a bot, but i checked and they aren't. we're losing recipes as the kids say. important ones too.

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maybe I don’t understand it, but I’m confident I can fail to understand some more

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Is it literacy loss or a larger share of the population attending university?

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I think I’m one of them oopsies

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I never thought model collapse could happen to ME

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I've been thinking a lot about this lately. Sparked by the near-constant parading of the statistic that most people read at a 6th grade level, and it's function of implying we should all dumb down our writing. I got stuck in a sort of boot-loop on one thought: > how could a 6th grader improve their literacy if they were only ever to be confronted with text at their current comprehension level? In other words, should we not strive to push people to be better? Should we not try to make things that are challenging, complex, and engaging, rather than, in every sense of the word, basic?

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Why do I need to read A Christmas Carol when I can just watch this

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Tbf to the students educators have been complaining about this since the early 20s. In the intro of how to read a book, the author goes into how uni students couldn't read.

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> 58 percent (49 of 85 subjects) understood so little of the introduction to Bleak House that they would not be able to read the novel on their own. However, these same subjects (defined in the study as problematic readers) also believed they would have no problem reading the rest of the 900-page novel. So not just literacy incompetence, but also full-blown Dunning-Kruger in effect

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A sharp declining literacy coupled with massive cuts to education & funding. A bumpy future lays ahead. https://media.tenor.com/LLu6EdwJk3sAAAAC/big-oof-size

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Good content ty

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