"soup" wrote in message
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On 19/11/2017 02:19, Rod Speed wrote:


"Fredxxx" wrote in message

I was also thinking of this article:
https://www.rt.com/uk/357676-literac...n-adults-oecd/

That says absolutely NOTHING about what percentage
of native adults in Britain are unable to read and write.

Erm pardon me getting involved in some one else's argument, but the
first words are 1 in 20

But it doesnt say that 1 in 20 adults CANT READ OR WRITE.

It claims that 1 in 20 would be unable read a bus timetable and
I dont believe that 1 in 20 school leavers can't use facebook or
twitter either. And plenty like cleaners dont need to do better
than literacy level 1 anyway. And I bet plenty who the official
test claim are at literacy level 1 or below can use facebook
and twitter fine, so the literacy level test is just another
academic wank as far as the real world is concerned anyway.