Literacy Data and its impact on the Nation • Illiteracy has become such a serious problem in our country that 130 million adults are now unable to read a simple story to their children • 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2022 • 54% of adults have a literacy below 6th grade level • 45 million are functionally illiterate and read below a 5th grade level • 44% of the American adults do not read a book in a year • The Top 3 states for highest child literacy rates were Massachusetts, Maryland
When I designed store fixtures, the assembly instructions had to be written at a 3rd grade reading level, and even then were barely followed.
To me, this is the genius of Ikea instructions.
No words. None.
Just numbers.
Legos for adults.
If you cannot figure out how to assemble Ikea furniture, you’re too stupid to be trusted… basically at all, with any responsibility for anything, imo.