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Has anyone else noticed a sudden lack of reading comprehension skills? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Just as the title asks I've noticed a very sharp increase in people just straight up not comprehending what they're reading.

They'll read it and despite all the information being there, if it's even slightly out of line from the most straightforward sentence structure, they act like it's complete gibberish or indecipherable.

Has anyone else noticed this? Because honestly it's making me lose my fucking mind.

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[–] Dfy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Am I the only one that's scared this isn't from social media / attention span but actually maybe that a long term side effect of COVID could partly explain this? I know this sounds like a conspiracy theory and I've never heard anyone phrase it like I'm doing right now but it seems like this virus changes how we think. I've heard people say for the first time in their life they couldn't control their thoughts, my father couldn't stop having nightmares for multiple nights...

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[–] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Are you calking me illiterate? Wtf man, get out tankie.

/s /j

Yeah, I feel like people just wanna start a fight without even reading what the actual argument is.

[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Check out the podcast "Sold a Story", it is made by American Public Media and explains, or at least tries to answers why functional and general illiteracy are so high in the US.

Very good podcastz just binged it today.

[–] mayonaise_met@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

Nee, negen.

[–] 2d@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

No. I have not. I think there has been a decent sized chunk of the population who has never had much interest in reading anything. That percentage has not made a noticeable spike.

[–] Numuruzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

No my eyesight is fine, what are you on about?

[–] notexecutive@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ever since normal people have been using the internet more and more, it has been this way. Especially with younger people coming im droves.

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