# What Kind of World Do We Live In?

**URL:** https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/what-kind-of-world-do-we-live-in/1714
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**Created:** [February 11, 2023, 5:03am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/what-kind-of-world-do-we-live-in/1714 "2023-02-11T05:03:19Z")
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### Author: ![ActiveMind](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/user_avatar/discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/activemind/32/5560_2.png) [@ActiveMind](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/ActiveMind)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/what-kind-of-world-do-we-live-in/1714/175 "2025-12-14T19:11:01Z")

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It’s not just K-12 students. [College kids can’t read either](https://discuss..com/t/what-kind-of-world-do-we-live-in/1714/114)

More generally on college students:

> **[The average college student today](https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/the-average-college-student-today)**
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> How things have changed

I did a little research on whether college students can read:

> [@Elliot's Microblogging](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/elliots-microblogging/191/272):
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> I’ve already read the [article](https://kittenbeloved.substack.com/p/college-english-majors-cant-read). I considered sharing it here. There’s an article that critiques this study: The study had poor sampling. That 49 students did so poorly seems very significant to me nevertheless. Well that depends on how many English majors there were in total at the two universities. If these students were the bottom 10th percentile then that’s significant. If they were all bottom 5th percentile maybe it doesn’t say much. But even so, I would expect more from anyone taking an E…

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