Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learning motivation

Re:Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learn... by TheOtherHobbes on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @03:54PM (#42785071)

I hope they're literate to understand we're only reading about that alleged exchange because Plato wrote it down.

Median literacy in the US is famously somewhere around the 6th grade level, so it's unlikely most of the population is much troubled by the thoughts of Plato.

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Re:Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learn... by theoreticalmal on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @08:12AM (#42792430)

I’d be really curious to see metrics on literacy broken down by other criteria. What’s the median literacy of people who are “like me”?

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Re:Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learn... by Eisenstein on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @11:42AM (#42794682)

I looked up those stats. First of all, it is literacy in 'English'. A good portion of the country does not speak English at home. Second, it was assessed in 2003, and a disproportionate amount of those with 'below basic' prose literacy were over age 65 at the time. The assessment before was done in 1992 and there was an a marked increase in quantitative literacy between the two.

* https://nces.ed.gov/naal/kf_demographics.asp

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