From https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/14phpbq/how_is_it_possible_that_roughly_50_of_americans/

Question above is pretty blunt but was doing a study for a college course and came across that stat. How is that possible? My high school sucked but I was well equipped even with that sub standard level of education for college. Obviously income is a thing but to think 1 out of 5 American adults is categorized as illiterate is…astounding. Now poor media literacy I get, but not this. Edit: this was from a department of education report from 2022. Just incase people are curious where that comes from. It does also specify as literate in English so maybe not as grim as I thought.

  • penguin_knight@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    i’m guessing peobably the opposite? they’re literate in french but the national test is in english.

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      1 year ago

      No, nothing to do with language. Functional illiterate means you can read, you know how to read, but you don’t really understand the meaning of what you are reading. Maybe Trump is a functional illiterate for instance :)