Incompetent Competition
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A study called "Adult Literacy in America" was conducted in the 1990s. They discovered that finding a literate audience for a political argument was difficult. Majority of Americans over 15 lack basic skills to evaluate ideas and form judgments. According to the U.S. Education Department, 90 million Americans cannot write a letter, navigate a bus schedule, or do basic addition or subtraction. That's 27% of the population. 30 million, or 9%, were judged to be so incompetent they couldn't even respond to the questions.