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48 in poverty seems low
85 being illiterate seems high
Yeah we fucked up.
I have some really bad news for you about the literacy rate in the U.S.
21% is pretty fuckin high
Unfortunately this is accurate. Half of adults in the US are unable to read past a sixth grade level. 20% are functionally illiterate.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/us-literacy-rates-by-state
How is that possible? People use the internet every day where you need to read constantly. Do those people live without any internet?
I have met people who couldn't read who used their phones. It's made for a literal infant child to use.
If you look at the data, it tells you about 1/3 of those who are illiterate comes from foreigners so that is not surprising. But the largest demographic of illiterates in the US is white people lol
Also they are functionally illiterate. It's a wide encompassing term that ranges from people who can't read English because they just moved here to people who can only read basic words like stop and go or words they encounter often in life but not much more than that.
I would imagine many people who are functionally illiterate just go to work, watch tv, and sleep.
TikTok I fear
It's unsurprising if you understand how horrible & scientifically uninformed popular reading pedagogy was until a few years ago. It probably explains the overreliance of meetings at work where written communication should suffice.
It sadly isn't.
Literacy is pretty strict, for a good reason. You can still be able to read street signs and "See Spot Run" and be considered illiterate.
Only one getting shot per day? Fuckin' rookie numbers!
E: extra word
That seems high even by US standards. After a year, basically everyone would be dead.
This is flippanarchy not maths-and-precision.
Apparently the rate is 125 killed by a gun and 200 shot and wounded per day. I don't know how that would extrapolate from the total population down to 400 people but you are correct that it is, in fact, much less than one.
https://everytownresearch.org/report/gun-violence-in-america/
325 out of 340 million is less than 1 in a million (per day). So in our 400 person room, (assuming I’m doing the math right) about 30-40 grams of human matter would get shot per day. Which is like, four (or more) eyeballs of weight.
I’d be extremely concerned if every single day, a random body part of someone in the room was destroyed.
Alternately, if you do it by time instead of size, one person gets shot about every seven years.
Of those 125 "killed by a gun", 91 of the "victims" pulled the trigger themselves. There's about 34 gun murders per day in the US.
If you're looking for a population where one person is murdered daily, you need to start with about 10,440,000 people.
The problem isn't that people are killing themselves. The problem is desperation. For far too many in our dystopian society, death is the brightest hope that some will ever see. The solution to gun suicide is unfucking this massive shitstained clusterfuck, not depriving the desperate of their 9mm retirement plans.
Why per day? It being trans counted per day?
That number seems quite realistic when considering it as over the course of a life time, i.e. over the course of your life time you have a 1 in 400 chance of being shot.
It literally says it in the post?
Ok, fine, I overread that, but it still doesn't make sense to compare that on such vastly different time scales.
Dude it's trying to provide emotional clarity relative to statistics not be precise on the math. Also look at OOP's username 'gayblackvet': he probably has a higher than average exposure to gun deaths.
Take it up with @gayblackvet?