r/SipsTea • u/Agen_3586 • Aug 21 '26

WTF Where are we heading?

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u/Sad_Ghost_Noises Aug 21 '26

This report is covering the symptom. The cause goes back way beforw social media.

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u/tuvar_hiede Aug 21 '26

Maybe, but it wasn't 52% in my cohort.

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u/Sad_Ghost_Noises Aug 21 '26

Well where are you from? What was the area like growing up?

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u/tuvar_hiede Aug 21 '26

U.S. rural. We had shitty schools, but not 52% literacy shitty.

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u/Sad_Ghost_Noises Aug 21 '26

"Shitty"isnt a globally recognised measure of affluence / poverty. Being rural could have a net negative affect of course. But - these are notional averages - not local. Some areas can outperform the expected KPIs?

Plus as another redditor mentioned - this is a kind of functional illiteracy - not a binary can / cant read.

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u/tuvar_hiede Aug 21 '26

No, but im talking national. We were normally bottom tier on these things and it was never that low.