True, on the other hand US is often a canary indicator. Often, not always.
In general, I have heard many variations of “people don’t read anymore” soooo many times, I wonder why it’s still news. Yeah, people read less books, more blog posts, more stuff on the internet and so on. It has significant effects on long term information connection, creation and maintenance of neural patterns and so on. Either we restructure the internet or that’s how it’s going to go…
We can’t extrapolate data from “Americans” to say “people in general” like this title does.
Americans and declining education is not a new phenomenon nor is it global. Americans are also not role models for anything.
Denmark scraps book tax to fight ‘reading crisis’
Ah yes, the famous two countries in the world, the US and Denmark, our good old two-country world.
https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/books/news/uk-reading-rates-data-books-decline-statistics-b2584273.html
True, on the other hand US is often a canary indicator. Often, not always.
In general, I have heard many variations of “people don’t read anymore” soooo many times, I wonder why it’s still news. Yeah, people read less books, more blog posts, more stuff on the internet and so on. It has significant effects on long term information connection, creation and maintenance of neural patterns and so on. Either we restructure the internet or that’s how it’s going to go…