Edit: of course this is satire. The power of the reading comprehension devil grows stronger every day 😢
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I'm gonna have to keep saying this until it becomes common knowledge:
Yes.
You are basically correct, yes.
~30% of adult Americans are functionally illiterate, 2nd grade or worse reading/writing/vocabulary skills.
The mean, average American has between a 5th and 6th grade literacy level.
Despite the fact that almost 40% of US Adults have a Bachelor's Degree or better... less than 10% can critically compare and contrast multiple news articles about the same topic.
We are very, very stupid, compared to any country with anywhere near the same GDP per capita.
First of all, you're a little high. It's only ~21% of Americans who are functionally illiterate. Source
Second, the thing people forget about that statistic is it's more or less in line with European countries like Germany, England. And we have better literacy rates than countries like Ireland, France, or Spain. Source