How thick are some people?

In the UK 7.1 million adults read and write at or below the level of a nine-year-old. They are 'functionally illiterate'.

4 in 10 adults can't understand written health information.
This goes up to 6 in 10 if the information contains numbers.

Not all these people will be 'thick' but literacy is directly correlated with IQ.

"Erection of single storey extension adjacent to drive thru, two single storey infill extensions below eaves together with elevational alterations"

Can't see that making a huge amount of difference, the infills aren't that big. Reads like the signs are moving to be more central with the infill extensions.

Michael Gove as Education Secretary said that ‘all pupils should be above average’.

I seem to recall that the US education secretary under President Trump stated that it was unacceptable that 50% of students were below average. Something like that.

The education secretary?

🤣

😂

A few years ago the then GMTV devoted a whole programme to investigating why 50% of NHS hospitals are below average.

I've been involved in a couple of news-worthy things that were reported in the local paper. In both cases, the newspaper report was so inaccurate that I would not have recognised the incident, if my name hadn't been mentioned.

And I still read the paper, online these days, and assume the reporting is accurate. Apparently there is a name for this: "Gell-Mann amnesia effect".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_effect

Seems quite a few Maccys being worked on atm by the sound of this thread!

We have a customer who lives in some flats which are on top of the jitty (alley) by my work and he comes in about 7 times a day to buy up to 3 items . Why not write a bloody shopping list and shop the once??

He was doing this during the early days of lockdown- when had to queue outside for 25-40 mins before entering the store. Must have spent 3-4 hours a day queuing

@AsYouWantToBe With cardiology your safe to assume their nasty. Ortho as well.

I used to deliver a paper round. It was back in the 70s when there were constant strikes with the printers. The wholesalers would send "extras" of whatever they had to the newsagents. As a 13 year old, I hadn't the faintest idea of the different political positions of different papers. To me, "red tops" were all the same, as were the more serious ones. I'd worked out not to deliver a red top to someone who normally had a broadsheet, and vice versa, but nothing more than that. I remember once being chased down the road by a very loud, aggressive, shouty woman and I was genuinely in fear of my life because of how aggressive and threatening she was being. My "crime" - the Guardians were on strike and the newsagents had been given extra Mails and extra Times. All I could do was randomly put a Mail or a Times through peoples' letterboxes who usually got a Guardian. This mad woman completely lost it at me that I'd put a Mail through her door! Any normal person would have just asked if I had anything else - most people did if they didn't want what I'd delivered, or we'd knock it off the bill if they didn't want any of the alternatives, but this crazy woman went absolutely berserk!

That's a complete fallacy, though a widespread one on Mn, it seems. You have a sample of one person. I live next door to a couple, both medical consultants (one cardiology, one oncology) in their 60s, and both nasty pieces of work. It would be as illogical for me to conclude that most or all consultants are nasty based on my sample size, as it is for you to conclude that the majority of senior medics lack common sense or a knowledge of current affairs. In fact, I always look to my medic neighbours' gate to double-check which bin should go out.

In fact there's no adverse correlation between high achievement/intelligence in one sphere and achievement/common sense in others. Because of my job I know a lot of senior academics, lawyers, medics, highly-educated and high-achieving. Perfectly logically, they are also extremely competent in other areas of their lives -- running households, pursuing hobbies or sport to a high standard, cooking, keeping abreast of current affairs, raising children, reading widely, volunteering.

On Mn, it's a wish fulfilment to imagine that clever people can barely tie their shoelaces or boil a kettle.

I admit I struggle with things. Maybe people look at me and think ' she's thick' , but often simple things baffle me ( e gates at the airport for one example, using parking apps when my phone seems to just not work etc etc )
I don't believe I am really , but some people are just better at things I think!
( I don't read the sun though! lol)

Average IQ is100....

Sun and Daily Mail are the biggest two selling newspapers. There are tantrums when we sell out of either paper. I just smile at them - have a day of not getting depressed.

Many years ago when most people had a daily newspaper I had to some some statistics on the circulation figures. Every single day the Sun and News of the World vastly outsold all the other papers. That showed how thick most people are and I'm sure nothing has changed.

How this are some people?
Very thick.

I do think sometimes written signage becomes wallpaper and people just don’t take it in.
People often need someone to explain things to them.
However, lots of people think the messages don’t apply to them.
Signs saying closed for example.
Yep, closed even to you Dave.

So am I right OP? The one in MP with the road layout change?

Put some reduced chicken breasts in the reduced section. A customer picks up a one pack asking is it vegetarian!

Ta

Clothing retail.
I still wonder at the family who picked up an item labelled 1 1/2 to 2 years and said to companions, "Aw shame it's not 18 to 24 months."
Lost a sale there.