#I'll use the yank stat. something like 55% of the country has a reading level of a fourteen year old | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

david-watts · 9 months ago

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really interesting how some people on this site, who seemingly are the type to be smug about the fact they have no trouble with critical thinking skills too, will take their opinion on something subjective and pretend it's objective fact. what's the definition of subjective again

#alternatively that person was just smug as all hell that they hate something popular which bugs the living hell outta me anyway #it's like earnesty is poison. they're so deep in being ironic that actually expressing a positive emotion about something is so #antithetical to their entire being it'll make them explode or something #and yeah I get annoyed with people who have a better-than-thou attitude about reading comprehension too #despite yes reading comprehension expressed by this site being often times abysmal. you've had to have heard the stats on it #considering that a majority of this site's userbase is american (or have turned themselves into americans but that's another matter)#I'll use the yank stat. something like 55% of the country has a reading level of a fourteen year old #I also know from experience there is terrible teaching of reading comprehension where I'm from too #so yeah. there is a deficit in people's comprehension. but being condescending about it is not it?#that's gonna make people defensive and retract further meaning it's harder for them to learn #because that's what you want right. you want to improve that stat. you want people to be able to comprehend what they can understand right #or is there a push to keep the status quo because there's no other way to feel superior and that's the only way they can feel good about #themselves. idk man I'm just rambling at this point I could be wrong

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