More Americans are getting college degrees than they did about a decade ago, but skills in reading and analyzing data among the well-educated have dropped significantly, according to a national report on literacy released yesterday.
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I may add that this is consistent with my own (unscientific) observations when I was teaching research methods, as well as the observations of fellow instructors.
Wojtek