Just as the title asks I’ve noticed a very sharp increase in people just straight up not comprehending what they’re reading.

They’ll read it and despite all the information being there, if it’s even slightly out of line from the most straightforward sentence structure, they act like it’s complete gibberish or indecipherable.

Has anyone else noticed this? Because honestly it’s making me lose my fucking mind.

    • @[email protected]
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      251 year ago

      My boss is horrible about this. He also doesn’t organize his inbox in conversation view so he’ll randomly pop up in different parts of an ongoing thread and can’t keep track of what people are talking about.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          Actchually, that is a perfectly correct response according to propositional calculus.

          One or the other? Yes, one or the other.

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      1 year ago

      That’s not just reading comprehension. People are always answering my questions with unapplicable answers.

      “Is it on the left or the right?”

      “It’s 67, the one with grass in the yard.”

      Just answer the damn question rather than providing me other information you decide would be more helpful!

      • @davidalso
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        51 year ago

        Ok so in defense of dumbasses, we don’t always understand the question. Eg, whose left? In those cases we don’t want to make your clarify the question and drag things out, so we give you what we hope is an unequivocally clear response. It comes from a deep-seeded fear of miscommunication resulting in too many mailboxes with their flags on the wrong side or whatever. We apologize for the pedantry, though. I get that it’s annoying.

          • @Slowy
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            41 year ago

            Depends which direction you’re coming from though

            • @[email protected]
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              21 year ago

              Now we’re starting to see another problem that might be at play when people say “I’m not getting answers to my questions”

              • @davidalso
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                31 year ago

                One key to happiness for me is to start from the assumption that I’ve been unclear.

    • @darelik
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      31 year ago

      Maybe because there’s 10 kinds of email replies at your workplace