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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drawmack" data-source="post: 3248577" data-attributes="member: 4981">After a skim of the above mentioned document:The average college graduate does read, the study shows 66.7% of college graduates read literature for entertainment. Extrapolating this with the previously mentioned facts that many more people read then read literature I would be will to guess that over 70% of college graduates read.The average role-player is a college graduate, so this is the demographic you have to look at when comparing how much role-players read versus how much their peers read.Also this is a very limited study. I would say there is no difference between reading an anthology of short stories and reading a bunch of short stories in the web. However, this study only looks at print media.If you would like I'll take 3 - 4 hours and fully digest this report and then we can discuss it in greater detail. I'm pretty sure this is a flawed report though as I have already noticed 4 mathematical errors and numerous editing problems which makes me seriously question this documents legitimacy. Not to mention it is put out by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is constantly putting stuff like this out right before they ask for more money to help with the problem. In other words, the authors have alterior motives.I'm not saying that the number of people reading in the U.S. is not declining. I am simply saying that I do not think this is a good study. The declining reading rate can easily be evidenced by the number of people who buy or borrow books on a yearly basis. However, a complete trestise on this topic must take into account the changes in the american demographic over the last 20 years. The baby bombers are aging and as they do so our adult population is in decline and our economy is suffering as for the first time in our history there are more elderly in need of care then there are adults providing that care.YMMV</blockquote>

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