Sentence examples for were less literate from inspiring English sources

Sometimes these examples can be explained by Dr. Pinker's model (e.g., the perpetrators were less literate, urban, etc.), but other times the social reality is far more complex (see "When victims become killers…").

A test conducted in homes across New York State in conjunction with the 2003 national test found that New Yorkers were less literate in English than their national counterparts.

It was the older women, those who were less literate and the less well educated who were significantly more likely to have stopped, as opposed to started, discarding colostrum if they lived in intervention, as opposed to control, VDCs.

This may be because of cultural differences and level of awareness about healthy eating habits and also possible due to the fact that a large proportion of respondents in Kongwa were less literate compared to the counterpart district.

The soldiers sent to Chechnya may be less literate and more vulnerable.

Now, it seems that those who are growing up in the Internet era will be less literate still.

The reason we chose Kandhamal District is because this district has a majority population of Scheduled Tribes, which tend to be less literate and experience higher rates of poverty.

Consequently, our children are less literate, and our streets are filling up with homeless warriors returned from the battlefields of the Middle East.

Since 1953, spending in real terms has increased by 900% and yet, according to the OECD, and uniquely in the developed world, our recent school-leavers are less literate and less numerate than their grandparents, educated in the 1950s.

Furthermore, one recent study suggests that college students study ten hours a week less today (about fourteen hours a week on average) than they did fifty years ago, and are less literate when they graduate.

Overall the survey's 50 questions reveal a trend that is hardly surprising: students today are far more media and technologically-savvy than ever before, but in some ways are less literate and more distracted than those of prior generations.