Social Can you read at the 12th grade level?

[SummerStriker]

I've seen some anxiety online recently about how more and more people, especially the current generation coming up, are unable to read at the expected level. Like 19% of adults in the USA are illiterate, meaning that they can't get the meaning of a text correctly.

Do you think this is right? I can image that 19% of adults will decide to not read a text, because they are bored and don't feel like it, but actually illiterate? I doubt it. They are just failing literacy tests because they would fail any test where they weren't being paid to pass.

For example, imagine I start a thread on Sherdog and the title is, "I HATED the Rings of Power," but in the post, I say that I "hated" it because it was so good it used up my whole weekend as a binge watched it, and I can't wait for another season. What percentage of people will post a nuanced take on why the show is so bad, or respond to the initial post assuming I really hated it? 20% 30% more? Well, those are the people that would fail a literacy test. Non reading pieces of shit. But they aren't that stupid. They just aren't reading on purpose.

And when people say that a person isn't reading at grade level, for example, reading at 6th grade when a senior at high school, what does that mean? I recently tried to find some of these 12th grade reading level books and they are just normal drivel. A lot of old books and memoirs and shit. Strings of anecdotes for which a summary can convey the whole meaning and plot. That people aren't engaging with this material is no mystery. Someone likes it, so they decided it was important, but is it really? I think it is just out of style.

 

[ChosenOne]

Cliffs? I can't read all that.

 

[Richmma80]

It's the change in the demographics in the country. We're getting a lot of people from backgrounds that do terrible in academics. They've tried throwing money at it, but that didn't work.

 

[Osculater]

Draw pictures for @lsa so @lsa can understand what you are trying to convey

 

[Contempt]

No... I'm illiterate. I mainly just play with the crayons

 

[lsa]

Draw pictures for @lsa so @lsa can understand what you are trying to convey

Please do draw me a pic.
Ï cant read that long text..
Or any text for that matter

 

[Osculater]

No... I'm illiterate. I mainly just play with the crayons

Join the club with @lsa, bro

 

[Get To Da Choppa]

I've seen some anxiety online recently about how more and more people, especially the current generation coming up, are unable to read at the expected level. Like 19% of adults in the USA are illiterate, meaning that they can't get the meaning of a text correctly.

Do you think this is right? I can image that 19% of adults will decide to not read a text, because they are bored and don't feel like it, but actually illiterate? I doubt it. They are just failing literacy tests because they would fail any test where they weren't being paid to pass.

For example, imagine I start a thread on Sherdog and the title is, "I HATED the Rings of Power," but in the post, I say that I "hated" it because it was so good it used up my whole weekend as a binge watched it, and I can't wait for another season. What percentage of people will post a nuanced take on why the show is so bad, or respond to the initial post assuming I really hated it? 20% 30% more? Well, those are the people that would fail a literacy test. Non reading pieces of shit. But they aren't that stupid. They just aren't reading on purpose.

And when people say that a person isn't reading at grade level, for example, reading at 6th grade when a senior at high school, what does that mean? I recently tried to find some of these 12th grade reading level books and they are just normal drivel. A lot of old books and memoirs and shit. Strings of anecdotes for which a summary can convey the whole meaning and plot. That people aren't engaging with this material is no mystery. Someone likes it, so they decided it was important, but is it really? I think it is just out of style.

I was reading at a post graduate degree until I joined Sherdog and now reads at a 2nd grade level. Thanks @NoGoodNamesLeft

 

[milliniar]

I read at 12th grade level in like grade 7

 

[ObsoleteSoul]

Eye luv wurdz

Yes. Yes I can.

 

[Osculater]

I read at a college level without going to high school

 

[Darkavius]

I've seen some anxiety online recently about how more and more people, especially the current generation coming up, are unable to read at the expected level. Like 19% of adults in the USA are illiterate, meaning that they can't get the meaning of a text correctly.

Do you think this is right? I can image that 19% of adults will decide to not read a text, because they are bored and don't feel like it, but actually illiterate? I doubt it. They are just failing literacy tests because they would fail any test where they weren't being paid to pass.

Funny stuff so far on the topic but I do think the stat is correct. Just from a general perspective think of all the terrible states. Alabama, West Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kentucky, etc. All consistently bad states as far as education goes in America. So 19% I think is a little conservative to be honest.

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

Cliffs? I can't read all that.

You read at a ‘Sherdog level’

 

[Noveltymortar]

I can write but haven’t learned how to read yet.

 

[FyrFytr998]

I've seen some anxiety online recently about how more and more people, especially the current generation coming up, are unable to read at the expected level. Like 19% of adults in the USA are illiterate, meaning that they can't get the meaning of a text correctly.

Do you think this is right? I can image that 19% of adults will decide to not read a text, because they are bored and don't feel like it, but actually illiterate? I doubt it. They are just failing literacy tests because they would fail any test where they weren't being paid to pass.

For example, imagine I start a thread on Sherdog and the title is, "I HATED the Rings of Power," but in the post, I say that I "hated" it because it was so good it used up my whole weekend as a binge watched it, and I can't wait for another season. What percentage of people will post a nuanced take on why the show is so bad, or respond to the initial post assuming I really hated it? 20% 30% more? Well, those are the people that would fail a literacy test. Non reading pieces of shit. But they aren't that stupid. They just aren't reading on purpose.

And when people say that a person isn't reading at grade level, for example, reading at 6th grade when a senior at high school, what does that mean? I recently tried to find some of these 12th grade reading level books and they are just normal drivel. A lot of old books and memoirs and shit. Strings of anecdotes for which a summary can convey the whole meaning and plot. That people aren't engaging with this material is no mystery. Someone likes it, so they decided it was important, but is it really? I think it is just out of style.

We are a short hand society now. We don’t have the attention span of generations past. It’s about
instant gratification.

 

[HHJ]

I shall glut the maw of that ineffable nameless evil which lurks forever in the soul of man, for so it is written in the Chronicle of Shadows.

 

[Tone C]

No... I'm illiterate. I mainly just play with the crayons

Fuck off , you just eat them x

 

[nonoob]

Cliffs? I can't read all that.

I do OK until they add the Capital letters and those dang bowels.

 

[ObsoleteSoul]

I read at a college level without going to high school

Me too!!! Sad in a way...

I used to read my grandmother's encyclopedias when I was in elementary school and use the dictionary to look up the words I did not understand. Helped propel me forward before we got to that point in school. I wonder if schools still have a class exercise where you compete to look up a word's definition and use it correctly in a sentence. I really loved that exercise in school as a wee lad.

 

[HHJ]

The great serpent-prow of my ship, Wave-Render, cleaves the nighted waters as we voyage across this dark, icy sea, towards the unknown... Above, the bright winter's moon emerges a veil of cloud to cast its lucent rays upon us, and a clinging, supine sea-mist writhes upon the midnight waves, swirled by the cool, whispering wind which catches our great sail, pushing us onwards, ever onwards... And beyond the tang of the darkling sea, the scent of night is as strong and heady as a summer blossom. I know not what awaits us at the elder Isle of Mists... that grim and mystery-haunted place which beckons me to its shadowed embrace, swathed in dark legendry and entwined in the mantle of ancient sorceries... and yet I must hearken to its ethereal call... for mayhap the gods decreed this to be my final voyage...