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I hate to say it, but a sizable percentage of college students seem to be functionally illiterate. If you provide written instructions on how to do something, they often cannot follow them. However, if you explain it verbally to them, even using the exact same words as in your instructions, somehow that makes more sense to them.
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2. jaybird3rd
  
  ^ True, it's been a long process of decline, but I don't remember seeing this problem (at least to the same extent) when I started in college, in 1996.
  
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3. jaybird3rd
  
  @x=usr(1536): That's very interesting. The age range that you describe corresponds closely to the people who are young enough for the Internet to have been a major part of their formative years, as opposed to the people (about my age or older) who were already past their teens by that time. I wonder if that's entirely coincidental.
  
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4. retrorussell
  
  There are a lot of nurses at work that are so stupid you can't believe they passed grade school.
  
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