11 milion americans are illiterate

[Dark Steno]

Where is the other one?

[Yogs]

There are only three types of accountant..






...those that can count and those who cannot.

23% of the Scottish population perform at the lowest level of a 5-point scale measuring literacy and a similar proportion perform at the lowest level on numeracy measures.

The International Adult Literacy Study (IALS), in 1997 compared the literacy skills of adults in 25 countries including Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States.

When all the participating countries are ranked in order of literacy levels, the UK is shown as being in the lower end of the range. This suggests that Scotland would also be in this range.

Fifty percent of the Scottish population are below level three.

[Yogs]

But to be fair:

Scots perform at the highest levels but also have more people at both the highest and the lowest levels than England and Wales.

[GepperRankins]

really. most britons are thick as fuck

[Biggles]

But to be fair:

Scots perform at the highest levels but also have more people at both the highest and the lowest levels than England and Wales.

I can believe that.


There is something of a "celebration of stupidity" culture in Scotland and the UK generally at the moment.


Do I look bovvered? ... I'm not bovvered...





well I am a bit actually.

[Yogs]

But to be fair:

I can believe that.


There is something of a "celebration of stupidity" culture in Scotland and the UK generally at the moment.


Do I look bovvered? ... I'm not bovvered...





well I am bit actually.

Well, that culture virus must 've jumped over the sea to Holland.....

[jazzthefunk]

its simple, the american goverment wants an illiterate complacent and passive culture in order to perform their
acts of barbarism against the wordls peoples They want the american, sorry the world to just passivly consume the market forces in order to replicate their capatilist western idiom of greed through out the world regardless to the expense in life and native culture. Its pure Imperialism, thems that have and thems that dont!!!!

note not just america thers a few dodgy countries out there, ah hem (cough) CHINA loads more illiterate!!

[HeavyMetalParkingLot]

That means approximately 3.5% are illiterate.

I tried to find the article on The Daily Record, but couldn't. I wanted to check out the article.

The question I had was how did they factor up this number? Was it only among English speakers? Was it everyone? I mean there is approximately 30 million people here that do not speak English.

[GepperRankins]

and how many are like kids and stuff?

[jazzthefunk]

and what about the cats and dogs?