What’s the average reading age in Britain ?

https://www.google.com/search?q=what%27s+the+average+reading+age+in+Britain&client=ms-android-motorola-rvo3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8&inm=vs

The average is said to be nine years of age I a child who’s been to school for four years.

It doesn’t say what kind of average it is but being the average is a measure of the central tendency of the data which means that it’s in the middle and therefore a large number of adults in Britain would have a reading edge of less than 9.

To be functionally literate that is able to participate in society and to understand government publications and medical information etc you need a reading  between nine and eleven

At least 15% of the population are less than that I believe it’s  lot more than 15%

What is worrying is that a lot of NHS staff cannot properly understand electronic records etc and I wonder if some of the problems in the NHS are related to this

Surely turning out functionally literate adults and training NHS workers in dealing with modern technologies should be paramount in society

It’s hard to imagine what it’s like to be functionally illiterate or unable to read a newspaper like the Guardian the Times or the Independent

This is probably why so many people look for the news on Facebook and they do not understand that all the media including the newspapers I’ve mentioned above do actually twist the news in some way can

I read the digital Times and it’s  very obvious that they want to destroy this government. Sometimes more than once a week they are still publishing articles about how terrible it is that parents who send their children to boarding schools have to pay VAT now

Only 7% of children go to private schools so clearly it’s not really going to affect most of the population yet if you read the times you imagine it was on all our minds all the time worrying about it

I don’t agree with all the government are doing but it’s wrong to twist things around so much to give a totally false impression

Even if you have a good reading age it does not mean that what you think is always going to be sensible. People believe things when there is no evidence for it and believe that if they have an idea about something it must be correct without looking for any further evidence than what happens to come into their head

The constantly said the government are doing what they are doing because they’re envious of the wealthy. Maybe some people are envious of the very wealthy. My view is it most people would like a little bit more money but they’re not groaning with Envy which will destroy their lives.