Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[MROO]

I think there's a setting you can choose for different items to come in the same shipment but you have to select it special and it slows your shipping on some of the items down.

If they get any slower, they'll move in reverse ... waymaninit ... my packages ARE moving in reverse ... never mind ...

 

[MROO]

This may sound pretentious, but I wouldn't really trust someone who is average for overall cognitive ability to be able to critically evaluate and weigh evidence relating to complex issues while maintaining reasonable accuracy. And there are of course many, many people who are below the mean in terms of cognitive ability. The data from the National Adult Literacy Survey is a good example, and functional literacy is arguably a proxy for g. Simple tasks requiring relatively little pre-existing knowledge were used, yet most people flunked.
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Many, many moons ago, a college professor told me that most periodicals (papers, mags, ets) and public information documents are written for a average 5th grader's reading level.
That's sad!

 

[Molpet]

My amazon ordered last week got here today

 

[CarpCharacin]

Many, many moons ago, a college professor told me that most periodicals (papers, mags, ets) and public information documents are written for a average 5th grader's reading level.
That's sad!

Yeah, it's true that they intentionally write public documents, questionnaires, etc. to be "readable", and there are several formulas that are used to guage the "readability" of text, which usually output a grade level. I just found this table here.

 

[electrycmonk]

I think it's more than that.

They see something that has a kernal of truth and believe the whole thing.

The biggest problem, for me, is both sides tells half truths

All news outlets wants to sell and sensationalism everything.

The one truth I hate, if it bleed - it leads....

The only ones (to my memory)that don't routinely do it are NPR & msnbc

 

[electrycmonk]

Many, many moons ago, a college professor told me that most periodicals (papers, mags, ets) and public information documents are written for a average 5th grader's reading level.
That's sad!

Military training manuals are written at a 7th grade level (when I was active duty '92)

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Many, many moons ago, a college professor told me that most periodicals (papers, mags, ets) and public information documents are written for a average 5th grader's reading level.
That's sad!

And when I took a writing class, i was told that for clarity's sake, one should always write as if one was writing for fifth graders.

 

[ShrekDawg]

It seems no one edits or fact checks articles anymore either! They just want to be the first and the fastest to get the story out! Maybe it’s just me but I get so annoyed when I find a lot of spelling/grammar errors in articles or when they have to do edits/updates later cause they got something wrong. I can understand the occasional mistake or typo etc. but when there’s so many errors that it’s practically unreadable or it’s every other line or whatever, it honestly loses credibility with me. and I’ve seen that several times in actual news sites not just some blog or something!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

My amazon ordered last week got here today

The Ranch-style beans i ordered a week ago, I was told, will arrive on Feb. 23. I can't make my world-famous chili without them!

 

[h2oratt]

unfortunately, this online school crap has taught my 7th grade granddaughter (who used to be proud of her high honor roll status), just how worthless school is now. She does barely nothing challenging.

That’s terrible.