Are there really that many illiterate people out there?
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I agree with you!  Why are there so many... There is a certain pride to doing things...If your'e going to do something, do it right.  Most people don't seem to care.
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Yes, some people are "book smart," but greatly lacking in common sense.  They just don't realize that there is more to life than what's on the books, and this causes a hinderence of personal relations with other people.
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I'm pretty sure the average fundi in Yahoo! Answers learned to read in school just like everybody else.  I'm also pretty sure they are capable of reading...  at least at a high school level.  \n\nOver the weekend I came up with a theory on just this subject by asking a few questions and seeing the answers they give.  If you are interested in the questions I asked and the answers they gave, click on my name and look at my questions.  \n\nMy theory is that certain "keywords" prompts them to repeat statements they have heard in church...  no matter what the question actually was.  I don't think fundamentalists are stupid.  They just don't care what the question is as long as they get the opportunity to recite portions of their beliefs.\n\nWhat really stunned me, though, was the lack of knowledge regarding the Bible.  What they do know, they repeat until everybody is sick to death of hearing it, but the rest of the Bible is a complete mystery to them.\n\nJust an opinion.
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Has anyone ever noticed the amount of people that cannot spell on here?  No offense buddy, but this was just the straw that broke my back!!  \n\nps - Big Brother is always watching you - don't ever forget it!
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You are right. But, reading the questions and answer must give you a hint that most are young or very uneducated.\nA lot of answers are opinions or what they would like it to be. If it sounds good and they like it, it has got to be fact.\nWhen you have 24/7 media spin I don't think it matters what is being taught. The problem what I see is most people do not have the ability to "think" or think out of the box.
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As amusing as find your ranting and as much as I agree with you, I still have to say: educated people still are out there, even though it might seem like they were abducted by aliens... \nStill, I would put the question in a different way: How many people on here have ever cared for education?\nPS: I like you!
588075
you are in the wrong place to find bright, dependable, and reliable people--most of them on here can't even use proper English or spell
630167
dunno, lots of them out there.
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Technically, there is not a problem with literacy in the United States.  Virtually everyone can read and write.\n\nHowever, there are these people online who, it seems, cannot form a complete sentence.  I think mostly they are just kids and they are trying to seem 'cool'.  At least, I really hope so.\n\nJust because the United States is a literate country, though, does not mean that all literate people have good grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc.  Unfortunately, good grammar skills seem to be growing more and more rare -- at least, it seems that way on sites like this.
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There are many. Unfortunately, spelling kounts.
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Absolutely!  Most children today aren't even learning how to write in cursive and most printing is almost illegible.  \n\nHave you ever thought that if for any reason we lose electricity or computer crashes, how helpless this generation would be?  They can not add without a calculator, they can not write without a computer and they can not communicate with out a cell phone.  We are headed for a big problem...we have never been smarter and we have never in history been dumber either.\n\nMy grandpa used to say that about me and I believe it is pretty true...my handwriting is pretty bad and I hate holding a pencil too.  My grandpa used to whine that we had manual typewriters!...even before IBM and the electric typewriter!\n\nYep...getting dumber and smarter with every new generation!  Pretty soon, people won't know how to sign their own name.
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Most people on here are severly lacking in intelligence and a sense of imagination.
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Too many people weren't paying attention to facts and were being swept up by rhetoric and false propaganda.\n\nSad, isn't it?
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Very interesting question, my dear. There is a vast multitude of people who have little or no regard for the language arts including English as it is written and meant to be read. Nor do they wish to improve!
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That is the general opinion all over the world at the moment, but the truth of the matter is that Americans are no less educated than any one else in any other country.  I pinpoint the blame on the examples you pointed out as mere cases of general human stupidity.  And unfortunately for most, the stupid people are often the most vocal.  I think it's safe to say that Americans are no less intelligent that any other country's population, as idiocy is a general characteristic of humanity that is non-specific to any group of people.  America's stupids are just more vocal, and Americans are a huge news topic at the moment, so there is this sudden wave of "Look at America".  This causes people to look at what idiots in our country are doing and forget that they have morons in their country as well.  Education in America is fine.  People are just dumb.
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I don't know how many people know about that. but some definitly know , and some don't. the exact number of people who know is not easy to find out.
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You are not alone in noticing this.  There have been several comments about it.  I even wrote one.  I don't understand what the deal is.  Are they on something?  Are they really young?  Are they from another country?  Or are they just illiterate?  Who knows, but it's really annoying.