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I believe you, and this has been know for decades. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna10928755

The underlying truth here is worse than 'majority of educated are illiterate'. Collectively, we've built these delusions into our culture. Perhaps there is less suffering this way.



This is wild, but is exactly what I'm talking about. Only 13% of adults were proficient in reading prose or documents. Thirteen!

I knew "most" American adults couldn't. I didn't realize it was 87%.




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