• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    The US ranks 36th in literacy.

    This is a deceptive statistic. It merely indicates that many countries like Uzbekistan and North Korea falsely report 100% literacy rates. Look here. The USA literacy rate is actually about the same as that of other wealthy Western democracies.