• @Aqarius
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    101 year ago

    Sure: being able to tell the author of the text is lying to you.

    • @[email protected]
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      This point should be front and center when countering the STEM circlejerk of “humanities are useless”.

      • Primarily0617
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        The humanities are objectively useful. Grade school reading level as a metric is not.

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            No idea, but me not offering up an alternative doesn’t make it a less useless metric for supporting the conclusions everybody seems to be drawing

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              You started this thread by saying

              what’s the concrete advantage of the average person reading at a high level is, past some sort of weird elitism?

              and now you’re trying to point out that grade level isn’t a good metric. So is it that reading level doesn’t matter at all, or that the metrics we use are flawed? Reductio ad absurdum, is it ok for an entire populace, or at least the vast majority of it, to be illiterate?

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      a useful skill, and one that’s not tested in grade school reading level

      • @Aqarius
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        The fact that the irony of your answer is lost on you is fucking tragic.