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View submission: Discussion: Dealing with low reading comprehension on reddit
It seems that way a lot. Sometimes it seems like a genuine handicap where people can't understand how you can possibly draw a comparison between two things that are not the same thing in order to make a point other than asserting that they are the same. Or they completely misunderstand the aspect in question. But there are certainly plenty of professional point-missers around.
Comment by SuperFLEB at 13/11/2024 at 19:38 UTC
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I'd wager that it's somewhere in the middle, or a bit of both. People latch onto a particular interpretation early because of lazy reading like keyword surfing, then lack the humility to do anything but double down on the assumption or the attention and motivation to empathetically re-read.