Nearly half of adult Canadians struggle with literacy.
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I can't read the article but do they mention the age range? I mean I can see 18-30 possibly struggling, but after 30/35?
That is what I was thinking. Also could be a lack of glasses. I was supposed to wear them but didn't. Finally started wearing contacts in high school and laser surgery in my mid 30s.
20 years ago. I posted an ad on craigslist i specifically mentioned i was looking for a female partner to work with me to find porn producers to make adult movies together. i got a bunch of responses who have poor reading comprehension asking me to hire them thinking i am a producer that make adult movies.
Any truth that the way men treat women is the way thier dad treated thiere mom
You only have to look as far as Internet forums (like this), social media or places like kijiji or FB marketplace to know basic literacy (reading interpretation, grammar and spelling) is declining. For example I’m shocked at the number of ads selling something where the name of the item is misspelled, even when the name of the thing is boldly displayed in the photo. Don’t even get me started on there/their/they’re and your/you’re….
If EVERYONE had the average IQ, mankind would probably have recently advanced from the Stone Age. 100 IQ is not particularly intelligent.
100 IQ today isn't what it used to be, either.
From wikipedia: Intelligence Quotient
"Historically, IQ was a score obtained by dividing a person's mental age score, obtained by administering an intelligence test, by the person's chronological age, both expressed in terms of years and months. The resulting fraction (quotient) was multiplied by 100 to obtain the IQ score. For modern IQ tests, the raw score is transformed to a normal distribution with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. This results in approximately two-thirds of the population scoring between IQ 85 and IQ 115 and about 2 percent each above 130 and below 70."
This link from wikipedia: IQ Classification is an interesting read.
The way in which Intelligence Quotient is determined has changed in recent years.
In the past, someone's score on an IQ test was based on their individual performance against the test questions, and the test-taker's age. The top of the bell curve corresponded with an IQ deemed to be 100, and approximately 60% of test takers had scores in the 90-110 range.
Under the current IQ deviation method, 100 IQ is deemed to be the mean average of performance by all test takers, and the top of the bell curve.
While it may seem to some that the difference between these methods is only the choice of grammatical syntax, the methods are actually significantly different:
Lets assume that an IQ test has 100 questions of increasing difficulty, with a 50 minute time limit. The same test is given to a random group of statistically significant size in 1974, and again in 2024.
Lets assume that a score of 50/100 corresponded with an IQ of 100 in 1974, with 55 correct being 110, and 45 correct being 90.
Discounting the fact that a greater percentage of the random group in 2024 would not be as fluent in English because of immigration policies, if the mean average performance was now 45 correct answers instead of 50, what used to be an IQ of 90 is now considered to be 100. Effectively, average intelligence is now considered to be normal intelligence.
I had a friend that had to go with his mom to a dr.’s appointment to translate for her because she doesn’t speak English. She’s been in Canada for over 60 fucking years! Came here moved to her ethnic community bubble and that’s it. She not the only one.
She is great.
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That's insane.
I have to say I'm kinda proud of my Mom. Came from Europe, zero English. And when helping her clean up her stuff, we came across a lot of her English workbooks, fill in the blanks, circle the correct word, picture etc, all filled out.
She really busted her ass to learn the language and became very proficient within 3-5 years she said.
There really is no excuse.
