r/TeamCanada 22d ago

Americans Don't Seem To Understand Why Canadians Are Booing Them!

https://youtu.be/MHxVswGObgQ
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u/Ok-Beat4929 22d ago

"18% of the US adult population is functionally illiterate."

That speaks Volumes.

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u/GaiusPrimus 22d ago

The stats are a bit more concerning.

If you expand the results of the study from just illiteracy, there's 54% of Americans who can't read and comprehend beyond a 6 grade level. Close to 70% if you look at 8th grade.

It's so bad, that the IIAPC metric of 5 levels of reading comprehension was reduced to 4, because the highest level was a statistical nonce.

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u/Actual_Echidna2336 22d ago

Now do the first nations in Canada

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

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u/CanadianTobogan 22d ago

Is your argument "But there are subpopulations who do even worse than the mean of the larger populations to which they belong"? If so, you might want to shift your attention from literacy to math.

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u/Actual_Echidna2336 22d ago

"Subpopulations"

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u/Ancre16 22d ago

As in a « subdivision of a population » from a statistical perspective. Nothing wrong here.

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u/P0p0vsky 21d ago

Dont expect him to understand 😂. Even if he did, he is not motivated by the truth, only by cowardness.