[rizzom5000]

I believe you, and this has been know for decades. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna10928755

The underlying truth here is worse than 'majority of educated are illiterate'. Collectively, we've built these delusions into our culture. Perhaps there is less suffering this way.

[smeej]

This is wild, but is exactly what I'm talking about. Only 13% of adults were proficient in reading prose or documents. Thirteen!

I knew "most" American adults couldn't. I didn't realize it was 87%.