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Has anyone else noticed a sudden lack of reading comprehension skills?
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One of my tasks at work is creating content - blogs, social media posts, internal communication emails, etc. We are instructed to write everything at a 5th-grade level because that's where the average American reads. Not the lowest-level American, the average.
I also get to do customer support for people who would not have to contact me if they had actually read the information I wrote for them.
I'm a nurse and we were taught to educate patients at the fifth grade level as well. Believe it or not, the sex ed level is even lower! The average American seems to struggle with such topics as "it's bad to touch or be touched when the person being touched doesn't like it" and "don't put random household objects in your butthole."
johnconnor.gif: "We're not gonna make it, are we? Humanity I mean."
Instructions unclear, my colon has an amazing idea according to my x-ray tech.
I don't know if it's at a 5th grade level, but the XKCD comic has an editor that flags words that are not in the top 500 most used words. The author used it in a few comics to explain complicated things in "plain English".
I'd say that would be useful, but using it would be depressing so it sounds like a double-edged sword.