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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah we elected one in to the presidential office too

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What does "6th graders" mean? After 6 years of total education, i.e. at age 12; or 6 years of high school, at age 16?

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

If you want some light horror reading, check out /r/teachers.

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That is nearly 114,250 9/11's worth of dumb people

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 3 days ago

In high school, I always thought the kids sounding out words like "the" were just taking the piss and doing it on purpose. I see now that was genuine. 😔

[–] ScrambledEggs@lazysoci.al 13 points 4 days ago (4 children)

That's higher than I thought. Aren't newspapers written at around third or fourth grade levels?

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 days ago

At this rate, in about a decade, tabloids will be formatted like comics with more pictures than words to make it easier for people

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

God, no. Even tabloids are generally written at an 8th grade+ level.

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[–] bieren@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

Too bad they can’t read this article.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Not surprising h their president can hardly read

[–] CraigOhMyEggoAlt@lemmy.wtf 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is an oxymoron. Technically it's the 6th graders who read like adults, since specifying 54% of adults causes them to be the standard here.

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[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Who is that sexy mother fucker in the picture?

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

you mean president Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho?

[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You forgot my title of Five Time Ultimate Smackdown Champion scro

[–] Necroscope0@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Damn this is pathetic. I had a 6th grade reading level in kindergarten.

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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 10 points 4 days ago (3 children)

How do you test a reading level? Like for me it was always you either can read and understand or you can’t. What differentiates reading levels from grade to grade?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

Did you start reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason the instant you learned to read?

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Another comment here gives an example of how a 6th grade reading comprehension test could be formulated. Essentially, it's about how complex sentences you can parse, and how large your "context window" is while reading.

Imagine a small child just learning to read. They struggle with every word, so if a sentence grows more complex than "The dog is brown.", they simply can't get to the end of the sentence while still remembering what the start was about. This also applies at a higher level: Keeping track of a complex "scene" which describes a setting while also describing dialogue between characters and inner dialogue in parallel requires more cognitive effort than the simpler "scenes" in children's books. A higher reading level means you spend less cognitive effort reading and understanding the words and sentences, so you have more cognitive capacity in reserve to actually understand the full picture.

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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)
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[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I dare not find out what my reading level is, for the same reason I dare not find out what my IQ is. I don't gain anything by knowing it, and knowing that I'm stupid will only worsen my self-esteem issues.

I feel better assuming I'm roughly average for both measurements.

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