Re:Tiny, cheap smart speakers unlocked the rise of digital p...
by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @11:44AM
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> it's looking like India already surpasses the US in this regard
Different standards. India is measuring base literacy, being able to
"read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday life" [1]. The comparable counter-statistic in the U.S. is Level 1 illiteracy, or being able to "unable to successfully determine the meaning of sentences, read relatively short texts to locate a single piece of information, or complete simple forms" in English [2]. That figure is 4.1%. (A Spanish-speaking physics PhD would count.)
Different standards. India is measuring base literacy, being able to "read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday life" [1]. The comparable counter-statistic in the U.S. is Level 1 illiteracy, or being able to "unable to successfully determine the meaning of sentences, read relatively short texts to locate a single piece of information, or complete simple forms" in English [2]. That figure is 4.1%. (A Spanish-speaking physics PhD would count.)
[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/IND/india/literacy-rat...
[2] https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179.pdf