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33% of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.

Posted by Mop (200 lbs) (aka rburriel) Jan 16 '14, 19:40

42% of college graduates never read another book after college.

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It might be two years since I've read anything longer than a 10 page magazine article. -- nm - Max Jan 16, 19:53 6
- I wouldn't know where to find a 10 page magazine article (outside rage-inducing screeds in Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair) -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 16, 19:58 2
  - He subscribes to Playboy just for the 10 page articles -- nm - @babybean1128 Jan 16, 19:59 1
    - The pinup diatribes are the best part! - Beryllium Jan 16, 20:01
- I haven't read a book in decades. -- nm - @babybean1128 Jan 16, 19:56
- *gasp* -- nm - mara Jan 16, 19:54 1
  - And attempting to read Just So Stories to my niece soured me on reading! It was awful! Nothing like my childhood memories! - Max Jan 16, 19:58
Some sources: - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 16, 19:51
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The Most Likely Person to Read a Book? A College-Educated Black Woman -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 16, 19:48 2
- Diaries don't count, Madea. - Max Jan 16, 19:56
- From this, we can extrapolate that I am a ... - Beryllium Jan 16, 19:53
egad. That`s pathetic -- nm - mud Jan 16, 19:48
One-in-four adults have not read a book in the last year. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 16, 19:47 7
- I've read two this month, but they were just novels ... not amazing literary accomplishments. - Beryllium Jan 16, 19:52
- Count me as 1 in 4 -- nm - @babybean1128 Jan 16, 19:51 4
  - This is a retread (a Mop, but he was here) from today, but yeah, so am I. - Spawn Jan 16, 19:52 3
    - Do you read books to your son? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 16, 19:54 2
      - Yes. But not novels. -- nm - Spawn Jan 16, 20:18
      - *scratches chin* that was possibly a rude question, I apologize if so. I was just trying to say that kids books might count somewhat. - Beryllium Jan 16, 20:00
- This is like a statistics class. Based on this information, we can extrapolate what percentage of the population are college graduates. -- nm - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 16, 19:47
*sheds a single tear* -- nm - Robert Munsch si Jan 16, 19:43
75% of inmates are illiterate at the 12th-grade level and 19% are completely illiterate. - Mop (200 lbs) Jan 16, 19:43 1
- *sheds a single tear* -- nm - Brooks Was Here Jan 16, 19:45
That's sad. -- nm - MDH Jan 16, 19:41

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