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[–] 80 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

Jen doesn't comprehend the problem:

https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-literacy-statistics

Now w/fixed link!

It's always been illiterates vs us.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Pff, reading...what are you, some kind of NERD!?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Is the last one in absolute numbers or as a percentage or something?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    Ratios. Anglo πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡² make up the highest illiterate race when compared to the rest. While everyone else means out, some know multiple languages, including natives.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (4 children)

    The link gives "404 this page isn't available" for me. I did an internet search for it and just found this Wikipedia mention

    1000039192

    Dunno if it's different criteria or what's up

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    My editor removed β€œ-” in between the years, and the strings. Link fixed.

    2019 is 6 years ago.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I found that earlier when searching on the site but didn't see any statistics about race on it. Where is it on the page?

    2019 is 6 years ago

    I'm not sure this sort of stats change very quickly but more recent is of course better

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    plus math skills are only 9th grade for HSgraduate, and my math prof was being generous like 15years ago, and my english professor said 10th grade level of essay writing at best, around the same time. i think its alot worst now, since there less emphasis on many subjects. when i was IN CC, people were still struggling with remedial math, not even fancy algebra which i find easier to do.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    We can't even agree on what most of these words mean, much less get the majority of people to care about whether we adhere to them. I know multiple people who think the entirety of science is wrong, and that hispanic people don't have the human right of safe housing, even when legal citizens.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Your point is that the terms on the first panel are more clear?

    Well, either way, calling xenophobia as "barbarism" is a nice ironical way for the language to evolve.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    We cant even agree on what truth vs lies is, or what either of them mean. a lie is okay as long as its convenient ,truth must be hidden if it hurts us

    In a world where truth is now fluid, we need to learn some Russian, just one word, a loanword "Vranyo" Literally it mean lies. but its used in the context "Im lying, you know Im lying, I know that you know Im lying, but you aren't going to do shit, and I dont care even if you did"

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vranyo

    Vranyo has infected western society Its how government operates, its how gangsters operate. convenientley, a lot of the governments and gangsters are now one in the same.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I hate the term "pseudo-science". Call it what it is: quackery.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I was under the impression that quackery was specific to medicine.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    I think you're right and that is how the word is most often used, but at least merriam-webster gives a broader definition, as the "practices or pretensions of a quack", which it then says is the same as a charlatan, so I guess it would be acceptable. I'm not a native speaker, however... :)

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    I'm quite miffed that the order of the comparisons in the second panel vary..

    1. Bad vs good
    2. Good vs bad
    3. Good vs bad
    4. Good vs bad
    5. Bad vs good
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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    I think that's intentional. It's swapped in the first panel too. It appears more impartial this way.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

    No it doesn't

    For anyone sad enough to buy anything these muppets say, Google 'cognitive priming'

    Edit oh and how they've edited their comment to have ridiculous whataboutism in it, such as "hey, replication crisis exists, no theres actually zero science anywhere".

    edit2 based on the downvotes, Vanja is mad

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)
  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    No it isn't

    edit again, cognitive priming

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Live footage of you coming up with these responses

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Idk man, I'm just refuting you "nuh-uh, totally opposite" logic.

    "I think it's intentionally wrong so it appears more impartial"

    It's sickeningly OBVIOUS that it's very much partial. It's putting "authoritarianism" and "corrupt" on the side that it's established moral things are on

    You guys are dipshits, but it's no wonder with your education and national infra :D

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This is just sad, I can't even be bothered to be insulted. You're wrong bro, go figure it out yourself.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    "I can't even be bothered to correct you" is like barely half a degree away from "do your own research" β€” the mating call of the cognitively impaired.

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  • Aside from the ridiculousness of reading anything malicious in an unordered comparison list...

    In 2012, a great amount of priming research was thrown into doubt as part of the replication crisis. Many of the landmark studies that found effects of priming were unable to be replicated in new trials using the same mechanisms.[10] The experimenter effect may have allowed the people running the experiments to subtly influence them to reach the desired result, and publication bias tended to mean that shocking and positive results were seen as interesting and more likely to be published than studies that failed to show any effect of priming. The result is that the efficacy of priming may have been greatly overstated in earlier literature, or have been entirely illusory.[11][12]

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Also maybe we should try to stop seeing everything as a binary issue and deciding whether to put a black hat or white hat on everybody. I know oversimplification is a good way to process memes, but it's really not good enough for dealing with real issues and real people who aren't cartoons.

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