One fourth of Californians are now illiterate:

@jj-adams said
Wow you are right, I had no idea.
In 1960 only 2.4% of the US was illiterate.
Wonder what happened?

In 1960 being able to write in Spanish was considered acceptable. Now it isn't. In addition we have much more stringent requirements now for people to be considered literate than we did in 1960.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/us-literacy-rates-by-state

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, about four out of five U.S. adults (79% ) have medium to high English literacy skills. These literacy levels are sufficient to compare and contrast information, paraphrase, and make low-level inferences. This means that about one in five U.S. adults (21% ) have low literacy skills, translating to about 43.0 million adults.

https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/1963/demographics/p23-008.pdf

As used here, illiteracy is defined as the inability to read and write a simple message either in English or any other language. Illiteracy, in this sense, should be clearly distinguished from "functional illiteracy"...

I am a Californian and I am more literate than 95% of you. We have two Blacks on this Forum, one liberal and one conservative, and both are highly literate. So...

Looks like we defined ourselves out of being literate.

@sonhouse said
@JJ-Adams
I don't think it's a huge deal, 22% 26% being called 1/4.
But this is just further evidence for MY theory:
There is a human race wide dumbing down, due mainly to Covid, there are known cognitive declines associated with Covid, long term damage to organs and the brain.
That and the political situation in the US, basically civil war Deux is enough to drive that ...[text shortened]... e is one nice guy, eh.

Can you tell I hate Trump? Just in case you hadn't figured that one out🙂

Why don't you like Kavanaugh