• SeducingCamel@lemm.ee
    22·
    9 months ago

    High reading level shouldn’t be elitist, we should strive to have a well educated population

    • Bipta@kbin.social
      13·
      9 months ago

      It’s really weird to call a 7th grade reading level or better elitism in the first place, and calling it “weird elitism” is even worse.

          • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
            3·
            9 months ago

            This point should be front and center when countering the STEM circlejerk of “humanities are useless”.

                • Primarily0617@kbin.social
                  11·
                  9 months ago

                  No idea, but me not offering up an alternative doesn’t make it a less useless metric for supporting the conclusions everybody seems to be drawing

                  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
                    3·
                    9 months ago

                    You started this thread by saying

                    what’s the concrete advantage of the average person reading at a high level is, past some sort of weird elitism?

                    and now you’re trying to point out that grade level isn’t a good metric. So is it that reading level doesn’t matter at all, or that the metrics we use are flawed? Reductio ad absurdum, is it ok for an entire populace, or at least the vast majority of it, to be illiterate?

    • Primarily0617@kbin.social
      213·
      9 months ago

      You don’t want a well-educated population for the sake of having a well-educated population. You want it so that you can have a productive population. And clearly, a high reading level isn’t required to be a productive member of society since otherwise reading level wouldn’t drop over time like this figure is implying.