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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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