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Originally Posted by masraum
Looks to me like the states with what I suspect are huges amounts of immigrants have some of the lowest literacy. Makes me wonder if they are giving immigrants that don't speak English and were educated outside of the US the test and going "yep, these immigrants are illiterate" and those results are skewing the results.
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You're correct. The presented statistics are being purposely misrepresented for effect. That 79% of people in the survey were literate enough to fluently derive information from texts, compare and contrast information, and otherwise exhibit higher level literacy skills. The remaining 21% were a mix of people with basic literacy (they could read words but weren’t great at working with the information), completely illiterate, or were approached but unable to participate (they spoke Spanish). If you count the people with basic literacy skills, and exclude those unable to participate, the rate is in the 90s.
Its also important to not assume illiterate and uneducated are synonymous. Someone can be highly educated in Spanish, and illiterate in English.
https://www.wbir.com/article/news/verify/education-verify/recent-claims-about-american-literacy-statistics-are-misleading/536-c5dc5cea-93a8-488c-9648-3f6d4709a7e4