Re: CHAT (POLITICS!!!): Putting the duh in Florida

On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, John Cowan wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>
> > Hmm.  What *is* the literacy rate in the U.S., anyway?  <looking around>
>
> About 89%, scandalously low for a First World nation.
That's really scandalously low. The last figure I read for the
Netherlands was 98%, not counting those 5-7% of people over fifteen
who are functionally illiterate (nominally literate, but at the
approximate level of an eight-year-old; they can *read* all right,
but don't expect them to *understand* anything). Our almost
seven-year-old is better than that :-)

   Irina

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