Wow, the pen is responsible for literacy.<p>It wasnt the printing press and then education that got those numbers up?<p>And that 90 percent literacy rate at the end of the article? Really?<p>90 percent of men, globally, 82 percent of women... Or 76 percent of adult Americans... Depending on where you look the stats are all over the map.<p>global data: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_rate" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_...</a><p>US data: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States</a>
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US data: <a href="https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-statistics-2024-2025-where-we-are-now" rel="nofollow">https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-s...</a><p>Maybe we should tell the national literacy institute that all they need to do is buy Americans more bic pens...