I am the most ‘unsupervised internet access as a child’ person I know, lol.
I just really really like computers, hahaha!
… I also am arguably even worse than the ‘eternal september’, lol, as I hadn’t even gone through puberty when I first started talking to people online, via forums or AIM or mIRC or Ventrilo or what not.
But as far as writing experience goes… you’re correct for a small subset of hyperliterate people, but generally your conclusion at this end is wrong.
Americans, American adults read and write at an average of a 5th grade level.
Around 15% of adults read and write at a 2nd grade level, functional illiteracy.
Something like less than 5% of American adults can read multiple news articles about the same topic, and compare and contrast the way they’re differently presented, to determine bias and missing or emphasized details, differing framing, etc.
When I went to college, this was referred to as having a collegiate level of literacy, post 12th grade literacy.
Well, how many American adults have a bachelors degree or better, and have an accompanying collegiate level of literacy?
Roughly 38% have a 4 year degree or better.
Yet only about 5% of them can actually do critical analysis.
So, roughly 87% of college degrees were given to people who did not actually learn how to think.
You don’t seem to understand how seriously the entire education system has already collapsed, how many college degrees are half comprised of what older, educated folks would just call remedial high school classes.
Our literacy numbers are comparable to those of what Trump refers to as ‘shithole countries’.
I was under the age of 10, for most of the 90s.
I am the most ‘unsupervised internet access as a child’ person I know, lol.
I just really really like computers, hahaha!
… I also am arguably even worse than the ‘eternal september’, lol, as I hadn’t even gone through puberty when I first started talking to people online, via forums or AIM or mIRC or Ventrilo or what not.
But as far as writing experience goes… you’re correct for a small subset of hyperliterate people, but generally your conclusion at this end is wrong.
Americans, American adults read and write at an average of a 5th grade level.
Around 15% of adults read and write at a 2nd grade level, functional illiteracy.
Something like less than 5% of American adults can read multiple news articles about the same topic, and compare and contrast the way they’re differently presented, to determine bias and missing or emphasized details, differing framing, etc.
When I went to college, this was referred to as having a collegiate level of literacy, post 12th grade literacy.
Well, how many American adults have a bachelors degree or better, and have an accompanying collegiate level of literacy?
Roughly 38% have a 4 year degree or better.
Yet only about 5% of them can actually do critical analysis.
So, roughly 87% of college degrees were given to people who did not actually learn how to think.
You don’t seem to understand how seriously the entire education system has already collapsed, how many college degrees are half comprised of what older, educated folks would just call remedial high school classes.
Our literacy numbers are comparable to those of what Trump refers to as ‘shithole countries’.