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Originally Posted by iheartthed
Pretty sure that the literacy rate here is skewed by people who are not fluent in English. New York and California both have the supposed lowest literacy rates, but those two states are also disproportionately populated by people who do not speak English. OTOH, New York and California are the two richest states in the country, so if you're implying that the literacy rates are an indicator of educational attainment, then I think you're barking up the wrong tree. New York is in the top 10 states for percent of residents with 4-year degrees and also in the top 10 states for percent of residents with an advanced degree.
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Yes, and Austin is routinely in lists of most and least fit Americans. Two seemingly opposite things can be true…
1. Among the most educated.
2. Among the most illiterate.
… provided that the society consists of large groups of haves (fit or educated) and have nots (fat or illiterate), if there are relatively very few people in between (slim/slender/average or literate but not degreed).
Furthermore, your about English language and literacy misses an important piece of the dynamic: many low income immigrants cannot read nor write
in their own native language. I doubt that whether or not they can read or write in
specifically English matters for the topline literacy numbers all that much.