&gt; I&#x27;d love to see the source you base that claim on.<p>Like the government&#x27;s official data on adult literacy?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nces.ed.gov&#x2F;NAAL&#x2F;PDF&#x2F;2006470.PDF" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nces.ed.gov&#x2F;NAAL&#x2F;PDF&#x2F;2006470.PDF</a><p>After 1994 they got rid of the &#x27;advanced&#x27; literacy ability category, corresponding to roughly the level academic journal articles are written at, because not enough Americans qualified. So currently the top literacy level is &#x27;proficient&#x27;, which is roughly the minimum level you&#x27;d need in order to teach yourself to become a competent developer. (That&#x27;s basically the level you need to read a newspaper and compare and contrast the information presented in two different articles.)