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More than half of USAmericans can't read to a sixth grade level, what does this actually mean? (hexbear.net)

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Like, in a practical sense? Do you have any stories or examples from your life?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I would say I'm pretty smart, I have a job that relies on being intelligent and I excel at it.

My toddler and I are pretty much learning to read together. I didn't realize how much I stuggle to read, or at least read aloud, until I tried reading books to my son and it fucking rocked my world.

At first I thought the books were poorly written until I heard my wife reading a bunch of them without a problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Dyslexic maybe? I know a decent number of engineers who struggle sometimes even though they do medium complex maths and can remember long lists of standards or do a bunch of coding.