The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #82432   Message #1510671
Posted By: Ebbie
26-Jun-05 - 10:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: Pessimist vs Optimist
Subject: RE: BS: Pessimist vs Optimist
"But, the average person in 1910 would have had a higher rate of literacy," BB

How does one person have a "higher rate" of literacy? If you mean there was a higher percentage of literacy in America in 1910 than there is now, the sentence makes better sense to me- but I question it. Is it true?