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Patlal
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42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate...
#23828335 - 11/13/16 09:05 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I had a store meeting today and they brought that up.... It's insane.
Functionally illiterate means equal or under a grade 5 level of literacy. How fucked up is that?
Also more impressively, if that number dropped to 41% it would add 32 BILLION dollars to the economy...
So I was thinking about you Americans (like I always do), an extra 1% literacy score would add like 320 billion to the US economy. You guys could pay up your debt in like 10 years is an extra 10% of your population could learn how to read better......
Isn't sad and fucking insane at the same time????????????????
Do you read?
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: Patlal]
#23828366 - 11/13/16 09:18 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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2 or 3 sounds right, but I assumed you mean "how many books did you finish?". I pick up at least 50, but I rarely am compelled to follow through to the end.
I also read the newspaper once or twice per week, but am more of a skimmer with that too, and lots of technical manuals, trade rags, and stuff like that.
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Patlal
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: moonrockmushy]
#23828387 - 11/13/16 09:26 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Books. finaished
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: Patlal] 2
#23828425 - 11/13/16 09:41 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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readin is for chumps.
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: Patlal] 1
#23828438 - 11/13/16 09:45 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm sure I read thousands upon thousands of shroomery posts every year. That alone makes me beyond normal comprehension.
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: Patlal] 4
#23828441 - 11/13/16 09:47 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Canadians need to attend the derek zoolander center for kids who want to learn to read good, and learn to do other stuff good too
Problem solved
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: Patlal]
#23828470 - 11/13/16 09:56 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Patlal said: Also more impressively, if that number dropped to 41% it would add 32 BILLION dollars to the economy...
How do you figure?
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So I was thinking about you Americans (like I always do)
Stop doing that, it's kinda creepy.
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: Crazy_Horse]
#23828504 - 11/13/16 10:04 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Crazy_Horse said: readin is for chumps.
yeah, nobody reads here Patlal! 
Thats really sad thou man, how is Canada that illiterate? doesnt seem accurate in my opinion. Thats almost half the population! 
I didnt read a lot in the past (except for college), but now my job has a time where i can read for fun, and Ive been hooked on this Moonworld Saga books as well as Dollar Tree books too.
I love the imaginary worlds and Characters that fiction books create. Before i thought "fiction books are dumb, it isnt even real". But now i realize that it still *is* real, in my imagination
It would be a pretty weird US if the citizens couldnt read
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: Patlal]
#23828516 - 11/13/16 10:07 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I dont think the number of books one reads is the correct litmus test for an assessment for literary absorbtion per year. I read a few books each year, but that is a grain of sand in comparison to news, short stories, posts, blogs, informational websites, etc... If you were to calculate all of that information, even excluding that which not helpful in anyway (ahhhhem shroomery trolls)... and equated that to books read, I would be in the thousands.
For some reason content does make a difference. Obviously the functionally illiterate numbers in the US is lower, but when 90% of your reading material is facebook posts, and shroomery pub trolls, you are probably costing society money.
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
#23828539 - 11/13/16 10:11 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Canada is like the movie deliverance.
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: Crazy_Horse] 2
#23828577 - 11/13/16 10:21 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I know people that read tons of fiction, they know nothing.
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akira_akuma
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: Patlal]
#23828588 - 11/13/16 10:24 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Patlal said: I had a store meeting today and they brought that up.... It's insane.
yes, i read, no shit...people do not invest enough in it, people whom are of a certain type...and that type is old and grey.
the younger population reads more, but, i imagine there is still a good amount of retarded kids out there that do nothing but play. oh well. the literacy will go up as the older generation dies off, seeing as literature is kinda coming back into style (for some. it's a waxing & waning, sort of thing....sort of thing) but it's really the education that needs to make more headway in getting kids more interested in literature...i say drop Canadian lit, or just stick to the more unorthodox Canadian authors...our curriculum is dumb-dumb jimmy joe-joe shabadoo.
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qman said: I know people that read tons of fiction, they know nothing.
ya, you love the anecdotal as evidence, as opposed to empirical; and making conjectures without any proof.
people can read JUST fiction, and know alot.
i'd recommend reading everything you can, just like knowing everything you can. get off your high-horse. you're not that smart.
you're Polish. ( reported? )
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: akira_akuma]
#23828694 - 11/13/16 11:06 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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If they made Trailer Park Boys into a book series I would probably read it.
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: moonrockmushy]
#23828935 - 11/13/16 12:15 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I do all my reading online. Was always in advanced English classes since grade school.
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: Morel Guy]
#23828985 - 11/13/16 12:27 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I read about 7-10 books a year. My wife challenged herself to read more this year and is on like 32 since January.
If I spent less time on here or doing some other stuff I'd probably finish more books, but either way.
Finally finished The Republic this year. Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead too. Those last two were easy reads, but Ender's Game itself was one of my favorite books to ever read. Real good story.
My Dad has a lot of family who are hillbillies. The older groups of them are often illiterate, including my dad's Uncle who lives with him currently. Cool guys, but they grew up in isolated communities and went to work at a young age and stuff. My Grandma can read though, not a lot of them. The first time I realized he (my great uncle) couldn't comprehend what the number 1 billion really was or couldn't read even the ads in the newspaper that blew my damn mind.
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: moonrockmushy]
#23829008 - 11/13/16 12:31 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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moonrockmushy said: If they made Trailer Park Boys into a book series I would probably read it.
I could see at as a graphic novel, maybe.
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: Patlal]
#23829027 - 11/13/16 12:37 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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STAL because the number of books i read varies so much none of the other choices would be accurate
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Crazy_Horse
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: Patlal]
#23829307 - 11/13/16 01:51 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Which category does patlal fall into, literate or illiterate?
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: Connoisseur]
#23829311 - 11/13/16 01:54 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I find there's not enough time in the day for me to read. I read educational books every day. But I also tinker, build, develop things that further advance my life.
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Patlal
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: Crazy_Horse]
#23829418 - 11/13/16 02:37 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Crazy_Horse said: Which category does patlal fall into, literate or illiterate?
I read maybe 20+ books per year, fiction, non-fiction, etc.
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