alt Hacker NewsI’d be really curious to see metrics on literacy broken down by other criteria. What’s the median literacy of people who are “like me”?
I’d be really curious to see metrics on literacy broken down by other criteria. What’s the median literacy of people who are “like me”?
I looked up those stats. First of all, it is literacy in 'English'. A good portion of the country does not speak English at home. Second, it was assessed in 2003, and a disproportionate amount of those with 'below basic' prose literacy were over age 65 at the time. The assessment before was done in 1992 and there was an a marked increase in quantitative literacy between the two.
* https://nces.ed.gov/naal/kf_demographics.asp