Comment on Consider dropping out of school.parentComments−dget16yWhat experience? I know quite a few people (not the HN crowd) who are reasonably smart, but give them a newspaper editorial by itself and they'll be lost. Not 96% of people I know, but a decent amount.−hugh316yBecause they lack the ability to read, or because they lack background knowledge on the subject of the editorial?Take, for instance, today's editorial in the Telegraph (of Calcutta):http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qrMr6hx...I'm pretty lost trying to read that. If I didn't keep up with US politics I'd be equally lost trying to read the New York Times.
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What experience? I know quite a few people (not the HN crowd) who are reasonably smart, but give them a newspaper editorial by itself and they'll be lost. Not 96% of people I know, but a decent amount.
Because they lack the ability to read, or because they lack background knowledge on the subject of the editorial?
Take, for instance, today's editorial in the Telegraph (of Calcutta):
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qrMr6hx...
I'm pretty lost trying to read that. If I didn't keep up with US politics I'd be equally lost trying to read the New York Times.