Re: Literacy

aesthete8@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Should I believe Wikipedia since it claims that Japanese and Americans
are equally literate?:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_rate

If you believe the UN report they quote; yes.

However, since that report justs states the results without
mentioning their sources or methodology, you have a right (and
duty) to be skeptical. How anyone can claim an accuracy of 0.1%
in literacy measurements in languages with widely differing
script difficulties is beyond me. And one suspects, at least in
the case of Japan, that results are based on self-declarations
by governments.

--
Jim Breen http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学
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