College Students Are Testing at the Level of 10-Year-Olds ^71.1%

Futurism - By Joe Wilkins - 7/4/2026, 2:01 PM

Negativity Bias 58.4% - Biased Writer Voice 54.2% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 33.4%

Gone are the days of university freshmen reading classical philosophers like Plato or contemporary pedagogues like Ta-Nehisi Coates. These days, incoming college students are lucky if they can get through Judy Blume's "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing." According to a new "Survey of Adult Skills" conducted by the Organization for Economic... more