• 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?