wanderingthomas
Jedi Master
I'm currently reading this article and I came to the part that talks about literacy rates.
I quote: "Did you know that according to a 2011 National Institute for Literacy report, a whopping 47% of adults in Detroit, Michigan are "functionally illiterate" ?
Unfortunately this trend is not limited to Detroit or the USA. Since 1970 world literacy rates show alarming declines (see chart above). "
Next to that is a picture titled "World literacy rate (1970-2015)". The picture is very pixelated.
http://www.sott.net/image/s12/253879/full/2413685535_World_Literacy_Rate.png
Now, I was courious about this, because it didn't make much sense to me that global literacy rates were declining from 1970 to 2015 so I clicked on the picture and the title on the actual graph seemed to say "Illiteracy" rather than literacy. Now obviously, it was pixelated so I wasn't sure. So I right clicked on the picture in Chrome and pressed "search this image in google".
I just randomly bumped into a couple of links on it several of them being of a higher resolution quality saying "Illiteracy".
_http://scenariothinking.org/wiki/index.php/Literacy_rates_increase_worldwide also _http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__e2VLp6gwyk/SagHRXSAysI/AAAAAAAACZs/jc3i3OvCblw/s1600/World-Literacy-Rate-1970to2015.TC.png
There is a general "Literacy" article on wikipedia too however that has a different graph but one that also shows illiteracy to be in decline, that it has "halved" from 1970 to 2015.
_https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy#World_literacy_rates
Now, I haven't researched the topic deeply enough to say anything with confidence but it looks like a genuine mistake and should be corrected.
A question to Pierre would be where he found the picture he is using on the actual sott article e.g. the original source just for clarification.
In any event, I didn't want to post this on the sott article so I don't spread paranoia unecceseraily on an otherwise informative article.
Mod's note: The SOTT link has been activated.
I quote: "Did you know that according to a 2011 National Institute for Literacy report, a whopping 47% of adults in Detroit, Michigan are "functionally illiterate" ?
Unfortunately this trend is not limited to Detroit or the USA. Since 1970 world literacy rates show alarming declines (see chart above). "
Next to that is a picture titled "World literacy rate (1970-2015)". The picture is very pixelated.
http://www.sott.net/image/s12/253879/full/2413685535_World_Literacy_Rate.png
Now, I was courious about this, because it didn't make much sense to me that global literacy rates were declining from 1970 to 2015 so I clicked on the picture and the title on the actual graph seemed to say "Illiteracy" rather than literacy. Now obviously, it was pixelated so I wasn't sure. So I right clicked on the picture in Chrome and pressed "search this image in google".
I just randomly bumped into a couple of links on it several of them being of a higher resolution quality saying "Illiteracy".
_http://scenariothinking.org/wiki/index.php/Literacy_rates_increase_worldwide also _http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__e2VLp6gwyk/SagHRXSAysI/AAAAAAAACZs/jc3i3OvCblw/s1600/World-Literacy-Rate-1970to2015.TC.png
There is a general "Literacy" article on wikipedia too however that has a different graph but one that also shows illiteracy to be in decline, that it has "halved" from 1970 to 2015.
_https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy#World_literacy_rates
Now, I haven't researched the topic deeply enough to say anything with confidence but it looks like a genuine mistake and should be corrected.
A question to Pierre would be where he found the picture he is using on the actual sott article e.g. the original source just for clarification.
In any event, I didn't want to post this on the sott article so I don't spread paranoia unecceseraily on an otherwise informative article.
Mod's note: The SOTT link has been activated.