Science journalist in Austria writing for Quanta, New Scientist, Scientific American, Science, and others.
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Elise Cutts
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I will never not be grateful that scientists will take literal hours out of their days to talk to me for magazine stories.
Often just one or two quotes out of an hour-long talk end up in a story. But the hour — actually many many hours from many many scientists — is what makes the story rich.
My suspicion is that it is actually mostly the phones and LLM chatbots — which, if true, should mean that other rich and phone-saturated countries should see similar literacy declines.
Does anyone know what the data says about that?
I'd really like to find the right framing for a podcast because I feel almost selfish hoarding all these interview transcripts for my own consumption and processing into articles 😅
This article points to the US Common Core standards as one reason for literacy declines.
I'd be curious if a similar decline in reading abilities has been observed in other countries that didn't think it was a great idea to teach an entire generation to read excerpts instead of full texts.
My purely vibes-based anecdote is that I do not get the feeling that the median Austrian has much better reading comprehension than the median American.
I feel like every editor I write for thinks I have a different beat and I cannot decide if this is a good thing or not 🤔
My boyfriend loves them but something about this music just activates every anxious fiber in my body 😅😂
ngl I feel kind of validated for having cultivated a nerdy intense interest in language over years now that language simulation programs are eating the world
