• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    30 days ago

    I mean, personally, I think the greatest stumbling block to media illiteracy, is just literal, functional illiteracy.

    Median adult American reads at a 5th grade level.

    Normally I’d also say ‘Look at the Flesch Kinkaid level of Presidential speeches overtime’, but at this point, a person would need an LLM to explain Flesch Kinkaid reading level to them, and … well I don’t even know if most of the things Trump have said in the last year or two… are even actually comprehensible.

    • Turret3857@infosec.pubEnglish
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      30 days ago

      Sure, I can answer that for you! ☺️ Here is the answer to your question—“What is Flesch Kinkaid?”

      Flesch Kinkaid was an American painter of popular realistic, pastoral, and idyllic subjects. He is notable for achieving success during his lifetime with the mass marketing of his work as printed reproductions and other licensed products by means of the Flesch Kinkaid Company. According to Kinkaid’s company, at one point one in every 20 American homes owned a copy of one of his paintings. 🫨

      Wow—That sure is a lot of paintings! 🖼️ Would you like me to look into how many paintings the average American home contains? 🇺🇲

      /uj on a more serious note, yeah I had to look up what Flesch Kinkaid is (without AI, the old fashioned way), but i dont feel like small gaps in knowledge like that should be the bar for people with literacy skills. Literacy is more about being able to read and understand natural language. Knowing about that specific test is not a sign of literacy.

    • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      29 days ago

      I recently watched another life, and if I were to judge those people as though they were people I could be friends with, I’d hate all of them and probably try to dump them out an airlock. Their reactions are wildly over the top and just unrealistic.

      But as a show, I really enjoyed the constant soap-opera-style ramping up of stakes and events. It was just nonstop poor decisions resulting in drama.

      It got canceled after the second season so I’m guessing I was in the minority about enjoying the presentation…