Nearly half of teenagers globally cannot read with comprehension

Re:Nearly half of teenagers globally cannot read with compre... by Cumpiler69 on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @09:59AM (#42318078)

>but numbers are surprisingly bad in the US, Sweden, and in England

Kids in rich countries have their brain fried from watching Cocomelon, Youtube Kids and Tiktok. They've been spawn-camped by ad-tech. Gotta get them when they're young.

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Re:Nearly half of teenagers globally cannot read with compre... by Aurornis on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @10:06AM (#42318150)

The numbers have been going up as those things have been introduced, not down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42318019

HN blames social media for everything, but this clearly isn’t it.

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Re:Nearly half of teenagers globally cannot read with compre... by eschulz on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @11:20AM (#42319003)

I think many kids growing up today in developing countries also have their brains fried by the same ad-tech.

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Re:Nearly half of teenagers globally cannot read with compre... by Cumpiler69 on Thursday December 05, 2024 @03:22AM (#42326113)

Kids in developing countries have pretty hard parents who beat productive values like education into them.

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Re:Nearly half of teenagers globally cannot read with compre... by runako on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @10:03AM (#42318132)

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=38

The US scores are relatively consistent going back over a half-century. TikTok and Cocomelon are not the culprits.

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Re:Nearly half of teenagers globally cannot read with compre... by Cumpiler69 on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @10:06AM (#42318152)

Sweden and England have had a lot of immigration from places with deficient education and low IQ.

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Re:Nearly half of teenagers globally cannot read with compre... by slaw on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @10:42AM (#42318536)

Do you think it is the same reason for Reverse Flynn Effect? IQ scores are dropping in western countries.

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Re:Nearly half of teenagers globally cannot read with compre... by peterfirefly on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @01:48PM (#42320608)

It can't NOT cause falling IQ scores.

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Re:Nearly half of teenagers globally cannot read with compre... by Cumpiler69 on Thursday December 05, 2024 @06:49AM (#42327245)

Yeah, but you can't say unpopular facts on HN, because it's offensive to the champagne liberals, so downvoted/flagged you go.

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Re:Nearly half of teenagers globally cannot read with compre... by peterfirefly on Friday December 06, 2024 @02:20AM (#42337253)

My top-level comment hasn't been downvoted or flagged so things are getting better :)

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