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user-inactivated · 3761 days ago · link · · parent · post: America dumbs down: a rising tide of anti-intellectual thinking
Well yeah I was thinking of percentage of literate people who read, because that's the relevant way to compare centuries. Lot of people also only had one book (Bible) but those that had the opportunity paid way more attention than any other time of our history.