No surprise for a nation that thinks ignorance is a virtue, and that disseminating misinformation is a sacred human right.
You want me to read a result of a study on science, math, and literacy? Pfft! TLDR!
Joking aside, scale is all over the map on their article. 10 point drop (out of ???) in reading since 1992, 3 point drop in math since 2005, and 4 point drop in science since 2019, but this time for 8th graders.
It’s hard to correlate so many variables; a graph would help. Still, I’d expect COVID times to be a stumble, but hope to regain momentum by now.
That just kicked off our anti-intellectual era. Finding an answer you’re comfortable with is now more important than finding the “right” answer. Also, if you listen to experts you’re a moron and a shill.
Why do we need to do any of that stuff ourselves, when AI can do it for us?
Five minutes in public and you can see this fact trundling down the sidewalk, mouth agape, looking for the closest polling place.
