Gun owners are shooting ourselves in the foot with our kids and not locking up guns

[Sam Cade]

When I was taking one of those mandatory healthcare education courses required for my particular degree the instructor gave us a statistic about how most people only have a fourth grade reading level.<snip> I'm not going to dig up the source so don't ask.

...study by lead scientist Jermy S, the most comprehensive study of literacy ever commissioned by the U.S. government, was released in April 2002 and reapplied in 2003 giving trend data. It involved lengthy interviews of over 90,700 adults statistically balanced for age, gender, ethnicity, education level, and location (urban, suburban, or rural) in 12 states across the U.S. and was designed to represent the U.S. population as a whole. This government study showed that 21% to 23% of adult Americans were not "able to locate information in text", could not "make low-level inferences using printed materials", and were unable to "integrate easily identifiable pieces of information."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litera...ional_Assessment_of_Adult_Literacy_.28NAAL.29

 

[JohnBT]

" It involved lengthy interviews of over 90,700 adults "

I declare that to be useless information. I interviewed people at work for decades - and then I got to test them at length and even recommend spending money for more testing prior to recommending training, education, work or whatever I thought was needed. I also had access to school transcripts, psychologicals and medical reports.

The stories told matched the facts about half the time. No wonder employers think all applications are full of lies.


So the study involved lengthy interviews. Big whoop. Waste of money.

"study showed that 21% to 23%"

The percentage is likely much higher.

 

[Savage99]

Good topic USMarine.

Thanks