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Posted Jan 19th, 2006 at 6:45 pm in Culture
The AP has this story about college students that on the one hand suprises me (I’m a little skeptical) but on the other, I could see how it’s true.
Nearing a diploma, most college students cannot handle many complex but common tasks, from understanding credit card offers to comparing the cost per ounce of food.
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That means they could not interpret a table about exercise and blood pressure, understand the arguments of newspaper editorials, compare credit card offers with different interest rates and annual fees, or summarize results of a survey about parental involvement in school.
The study highlighted that people had particular difficulty with concepts involving math. Kind of scary.