More (not so) fun facts:

54% of American adults read below a 6th grade level.

21% read below a 5th grade level, which is considered functionally illiterate.

High immigration numbers don’t fully explain it either, as first gen immigrants only make up about 1/3 of those with low literacy.

  • ButteryMonkey@piefed.social
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    14 days ago

    Sorry are you saying that something like literacy, which has well-studied and accepted pathways to widespread adoption, is comparable in any way to homeopathy, which is pseudoscientific nonsense from start to end?

    Because lol no, homeopathy is nonsense regardless of whatever other nonsense the education department is doing…?

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      13 days ago

      I’m saying that just because something is specifically intended for something doesn’t imply that it has a larger effect than other things which have broad effects.

      So no, the fact that homeopathy is psudoscience is irrelevant for my example (and the argument as you phrased it above). I read you, effectively, as saying:

      because teaching is intended to influence literacy, and poverty reduction influences many things, teaching has a bigger effect