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Just as the title asks I've noticed a very sharp increase in people just straight up not comprehending what they're reading.

They'll read it and despite all the information being there, if it's even slightly out of line from the most straightforward sentence structure, they act like it's complete gibberish or indecipherable.

Has anyone else noticed this? Because honestly it's making me lose my fucking mind.

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[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I... don't follow.

[-] Numuruzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

No my eyesight is fine, what are you on about?

[-] fixerdude2@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

This is my daily struggle. Add to it verbal conversations as well.

[-] FellowEarthling@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
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[-] amio@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

In what sense, in what context?

[-] liztliss@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Definitely not bots, right?

[-] helmet91@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hmm. In the country where I'm from, absolutely, that's the case. The average level of IQ there is incredibly low, so it's not really surprising.

Generally on the internet? Well... kinda yes. Of course, I know there are many cases thanks to social media garbage that are making people unwilling to read and use their brains to think, thus degrading their abilities to pay attention for a longer time, which would be required for reading even just a moderate length of text. Yes, I'm fully aware of that, and that's a tragedy for today's generation.

So why "kinda"? Apparently I tend to follow topics that actually require a certain level of intelligence, and the communities there usually have adequate reading and comprehension skills.

But yes, long story short, that's the trend unfortunately. People just read less and less, and with that, their skills are degrading as well.

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