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Originally Posted by fa63
The average American reads at a 7th/8th grade level.
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I didn't think it was that high. So I took the first Google return link:
Literacy in the United States. Snippet as follows:
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The 15% figure for full literacy, equivalent to a university undergraduate level, is consistent with the notion that the "average" American reads at a 1st or 2nd grade level which is also consistent with recommendations, guidelines, and norms of readability for medication directions, product information, and popular fiction.
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In fairness, I don't think it is quite as low as 1st or 2nd grade unless what I remember of my own 1st or 2nd Grade Catholic Elementary schooling was vastly different from what 1st or 2nd Grade public K-12 schooling is now. We're not that low now, are we?
I would guess that the average US reading level was in the 4th or 5th Grade level - just a guess on my part.