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larry.fisherman
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: Repertoire89]
#23830063 - 11/13/16 06:27 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Maple syrup has neuroprotective properties and they are studying it for use in the treatment of Alzheimer's.
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: larry.fisherman]
#23830070 - 11/13/16 06:30 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Real men eat their pancakes raw, uncooked and plain
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larry.fisherman
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: Repertoire89]
#23830074 - 11/13/16 06:31 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Real men cook bacon in to their pancakes. You're a fraud, and a coward among men.
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: Repertoire89] 2
#23830078 - 11/13/16 06:32 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I just toss and wash bisquick
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Patlal
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: EnemaOfState]
#23830114 - 11/13/16 06:45 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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EnemaOfState said: I work at an English teaching school on Thailand and the vast majority of my co-workers are Canadian. I just shouted this fact in the office to everyone and now everyone hates me 
LOL!
Tell them that a concerned fellow Canadian is right and they they secretly know I right too. Most people read their last book the day they get out of school.
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: moonrockmushy]
#23830122 - 11/13/16 06:49 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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moonrockmushy said: I just toss and wash bisquick
Sometimes I'll just shove down flour with some rocks like a chicken does, the rocks break up all the food in your stomach. No chaser necessary
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: Patlal]
#23830126 - 11/13/16 06:51 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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RICKY!!!!!!!!!
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: larry.fisherman]
#23830127 - 11/13/16 06:51 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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XLCaps said: Real men cook bacon in to their pancakes. You're a fraud, and a coward among men.
Cooking is for menonites
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: Repertoire89]
#23830129 - 11/13/16 06:52 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Would also like to note that the amazon add on this site i suggesting I check out "Delicious Bacon"
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: tealeaf] 2
#23830304 - 11/13/16 07:52 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I read every night. Usually about 50 pages, sometimes more if i read in the afternoon, sometimes less if i'm busy.
I'm currently reading the 3rd book in the Inda series (King's Shield) by Sherwood Smith. I pretty much only read dorky fantasy. Ocassionally i'll venture into short scifi stories with stuff like Calahans Crosstime Saloon
This statistic sounds like bullshit to me though. How big was the sample size? Did they count writing/grammar skills? or was it just a vocabulary or comprehension test?
Edit. Just counted, i've read 37 books so far this year. Most of them over 500 pages. And thanks for reminding me to update my sig. If anyone wants to trade books lemme know
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CookieCrumbs
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: Patlal]
#23830351 - 11/13/16 08:03 PM (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.
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......
Jobs are finite. You don't just magically add more jobs because people are smarter. Why do you think there's so many people with college degrees that are having to settle? All more educated people means is that more educated people have to take the jobs that were once held by less educated people and the even less educated people are fucked. There's not extra money. The only thing that changes is the division of the money.
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: Adolin]
#23830359 - 11/13/16 08:07 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Gresh said:
This statistic sounds like bullshit to me though. How big was the sample size? Did they count writing/grammar skills? or was it just a vocabulary or comprehension test?
I'm pretty sure Patlal intentionally doesn't link sources because they usually are. Last time I went to source check something from him it turned out to be some bogus story form snopes.
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: EnemaOfState]
#23830399 - 11/13/16 08:16 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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EnemaOfState said: I work at an English teaching school on Thailand and the vast majority of my co-workers are Canadian. I just shouted this fact in the office to everyone and now everyone hates me 
USA, USA, USA!!!
That reminds me I've had some downtime lately and live about 2 blocks from the library. Go and get my library card back tomorrow.
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: CookieCrumbs]
#23831486 - 11/14/16 08:26 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: Patlal]
#23831502 - 11/14/16 08:35 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I used to read constantly. now I don't read at all. I listen to podcasts instead. studies show you retain info just as well from listening as reading , and I can work out or clean at the same time and don't need to tilt my head down to look at the book.
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larry.fisherman
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: Patlal]
#23831522 - 11/14/16 08:44 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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What I'm seeing is Canada is being unnecessarily put on the spot. There are fairly high illiteracy rates everywhere. I'm also curious about the metrics they use in which to measure all this and what variables they account for. I can imagine immigrants who poorly communicate english, and the many undereducated first nations people among the many reservations and frozen white north, would really effect our diversity in literacy skills. Not that I'm saying most of us Canadians are geniuses, in fact I can actually think of a number of people I've met in my life that clearly had some issues reading. Which I just don't understand at all.
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: larry.fisherman]
#23831545 - 11/14/16 08:54 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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many people I work with are writing at a grade 6 level. but I would call them functionally literate, not functionally illiterate.
they can't write a research paper or university essay, and they don't need to. they read and write at a level adequate to their jobs.
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: Moonshoe]
#23831585 - 11/14/16 09:07 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I read books sometimes
Reading isn't a problem writing is a bit tough sometimes
Who cares though it doesn't matter perfection is bullshit
One problem I have found in life is that nothing is ever good enough for the bad man and maybe those people should look in the mirror
Edited by watermelon mon (11/14/16 09:08 AM)
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: Moonshoe]
#23831607 - 11/14/16 09:14 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Thank you naked kitty. I will criticize your source later.
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Moonshoe said: many people I work with are writing at a grade 6 level. but I would call them functionally literate, not functionally illiterate.
they can't write a research paper or university essay, and they don't need to. they read and write at a level adequate to their jobs.
I think alot of people in the western world are at a 5th grade reading level. Most lifestyles don't require more.
I really don't think everyone being at a college reading level woould make a big difference. Internet debates might be more interesting but that's probably about it.
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Re: 42% of Canadians are functionally illiterate... [Re: Patlal]
#23831610 - 11/14/16 09:16 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm pretty sure close to 42 % of Canadians have a university degree. I'm sure many of the people this study is calling illiterate are university graduates.
I know because I marked and edited many of their papers.
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