The first bolded part, that's just lol. But for the second, the youth literacy rate there is 55%. It's low enough that it might not be that horrible of an assumption. But combined with the first part, yeah...

[–] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The literacy rate in the US has 54% of the adult population reading under an 8th grade comprehension level. https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2020/09/09/low-literacy-levels-among-us-adults-could-be-costing-the-economy-22-trillion-a-year/?sh=5c4986554c90

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Not sure what the US has to do with this. But I guess if you wanted to compare the literacy rates, Ethiopia is at 51.8 adult literacy rate and the US at 86%.

Not sure what we get out of that comparison though.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago

That line reads like some Boomer who has no idea how computers work. Doing what they did to those tablets required the prior ability to read.