One in four adult Americans say that they read no books within the last year, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released today. According to the AP news report, the typical person claims to have read four books in the last year. Among readers, women (and Democrats) tend to read more books overall, but men read more history and biography. The most popular category of books was the Bible and religious works, which were read by two-thirds of respondents.
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Are you sure it's that high? I'm looking at a report of the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy, available on the Web site of the National Center for Education Statistics of the U.S. Department of Education. It seems to indicate that 14 percent of American adults were "below basic" in literacy involving prose texts, 12 percent in document texts such as charts or forms, and 22 percent in quantitative operations (mostly addition).
Interestingly, 3 percent of those below basic in prose had a college degree, and 1 percent had graduate studies or a graduate degree.
Posted by: Rob Rogers | August 23, 2007 at 04:04 PM
That is an encouraging statistic, especially considering that 1 in 3 Americans is functionally illiterate.
Posted by: Albert Vosburn | August 22, 2007 at 03:59 PM