On 17/02/2013 00:56, Christina Websell wrote:
"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
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On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:15:44 -0000, Janet wrote:

English city where the average reading age is 7.

Where would that be? With a reference please

Somewhere near the 7 bridge?

Under it, more like. I've never heard of an adult population having
their reading ages tested/recorded.

Some one "clever" probably did a survey of 50 adults on a council sink
estate and extrapolated the results to cover the whole city.

Having said that a google produces many hits which state the UK average
reading age is around 8 or 9.

What? Not for my family.

Perhaps you are having difficulty with reading and understanding
mathematical concepts. UK average implies a national average. Some
will be higher some lower. By being higher you cannot drag the lowest
or the average up to your level.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/jan/24/books.politics

"Up to 16 million adults - nearly half the workforce - are holding
down jobs despite having the reading and writing skills expected of
children leaving primary school, a new report reveals today.

MPs on the Commons Public Accounts Committee claim that a major
government scheme costing billions of pounds has done little to
improve the quality of adult literacy and numeracy teaching.

The Department for Education is on course to have spent almost £6bn on
its Skills for Life scheme by 2010, but its first few years have
produced little evidence of improvement in provision in colleges or
on-the-job training by employers."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3641634.stm (from 2004)

"A scientist at Bath University looked at pages about diabetes on 15
internet health sites run mainly by charities and official bodies.

He found people would need a reading ability of an educated 11 to
17-year-old to understand the sites.

However, he said the average reading age of people in the UK was
equivalent to an educated nine-year-old."
--
Phil Cook