[Wikipedia-l] Request for ASL/English

Alphax alphasigmax at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 00:46:17 UTC 2005


HHamilto at doe.k12.ga.us wrote:
<snip>
>         You should also know:
> 
>         The average deaf adult reads at about the 4th grade level
>         http://gri.gallaudet.edu/Literacy/#reading . Thus much of the
>         internet  and encyclopedias in general are inaccessible to these
>         users due to the level of reading required.

No, that data is for 17-year-olds and the 18-year-olds - and they took
the median, without even mentioning the mean. Statistics can say
anything you want them to say, if you use the right statistic.

Do you have any data on countries other than the US?

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