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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hmm. It's interesting the number of posters on this thread, some of whom claim to be gifted, who just implicitly believe the OP and her YouTube video.

Anytime you see a shocking title on a video, you've got to assume the truth is more nuanced and there's more to the story. Internet Literacy 101.

It's not just decoding that's important, it's critical thinking. Something that a lot of adults apparently haven't quite mastered yet...

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I believe you are an AI bot, PP.  - possibly a foreign based AI bot.  This is your second dismissive reply here, which has no substance, but only a general criticism of the entirety of YouTube.

You failed to acknowledge or address the reliability and reliance on the longstanding statistical analysis from the compiled NEAP (referenced several times in the video, which I suspect you did not watch prior to your dismissal).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Assessment_of_Educational_Progress#Long-term_trend

Please go away. And don’t come back.  Your attitude is a large part of the problem.[/quote]

NP. I am neither foreign nor a bot, but also am skeptical of OP's youtube clickbait post.  Cite an actual study that shows us that 40% of 4th graders can not read that defines what you mean by "can not read" (does that mean can not read according to state level standards of proficiency for a particular grade? or that a 4th grader literally can not read the word "cat" or "rat."

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These questions are answered in the video. You don't even have to watch all 14 minutes, because what you're talking about is answered by the third minute. The data being used is also mentioned several times in this thread, including in the comment to which you responded. You're "skeptical" of a claim you seem to have made zero effort to understand.[/quote]

Since you enjoy watching Youtube (and I don't, because it contains all sorts of garbage), feel free to link to the legitimate sources cited in the video.  If they're legitimate research studies, I would be happy to read them and better understand  the accuracy of your claim that "40% of 4th graders can't read" [/quote]

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