2026-11-03 16:59 UTC
Yes, if you are writing for the general public you need to keep it simple. A shocking number of people are barely literate, something like 1 in 5 adults in the US are illiterate.
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@Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2026-11-03 17:26
<1 in 20 In 2019, the National Center for Educational Statistics reported that 4.1% of US adults had literacy abilities below level 1, defined as “unable to successfully determine the meaning of sentences, read relatively short texts to locate a single piece of information, or complete simple forms”, and could be classified as functionally illiterate.