Literacy Rates Debate

Look up US literacy rate you'll be surprised

People are objectively not “often” unable to read. Literacy is extremely high, almost universal, in modern developed nations

Even poor countries are mostly literate nowadayshttps://ourworldindata.org/literacy

The supposed 95% literacy is a lie. Most people can't really read. They can usually identify individual words, but they can't do this fast enough and reliably enough to actually understand non-trivial sentences.

I'm not so sure about that. Compare with literacy. Not only is there a largish part of the population that hasn't enough reading proficiency'to be called literate, but even a large part of the literate do have trouble reading and comprehending texts, forms, and what not that are written by higher educated people. This is a big problem with governmental forms and the like. For the people for which these forms are often the most important have the most trouble reading and comprehen

Literacy & numeracy rates prior to widespread public schooling would disagree with you on this.

I'm not sure where you're from, but in the US, literacy rates are definitely not near 100%. In the report below 8.2% we're functionally illiterate and unable to participate in the survey.https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179/index.asp

> But a hundred years ago we could easily have the same conversation about simply reading and writing - they (the poor, women, or "lower class" ) luke not be taught to read. But it turns out that if you start young enough, and put enough effort in, 99% of everyone can learnThere is a thing called functional illiteracy [1], where people can write and read but mostly only their name and some very basic things like grocery lists. They also cannot comprehend texts even if they can re

This sort of expects that the population is literate.

And let's not forget, lot of kids with 12 years of education can't read too! https://www.vice.com/en/article/us-literacy-dropped-substant...