Are you smarter than a ten-year-old? New knowledge recommend {that a} shockingly giant portion of adults within the wealthy world won’t be. Roughly one-fifth of individuals aged 16 to 65 carry out no higher in exams of maths and studying than could be anticipated of a pupil coming to the tip of their time at major college, in line with a research launched on December tenth by the OECD, a membership of largely wealthy nations. Worse nonetheless, adults in lots of locations have grown much less literate over the previous ten years.