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Originally posted by CaptainCrunch@Sep 7 2004, 02:14 PM
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@Sep 7 2004, 08:03 PM
I have this nifty little book beside my desk here called# "The Economist Pocket World in Figures"-- 2003 Edition".
It has all sorts of interesting facts, one of which being that Iraq has an adult literacy rate of %55.9.# I'm no mathemagician, but that also means that they have an illiteracy rate of %44.1.
Holy Crap.#
That ranks them 29th worst in the world.
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It is interesting to look at those figures.
Now compare it to the main Muslin based nations of the world
then split it into male vs female
Then you'll have a case
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A case for what? It was just an interesting fact I thought.
The list only goes to 30. Yemen, Afghanistan and Pakistan are worse off than Iraq. Countries in the area (Iran, Syria, Jordan, Saudi...) aren't on the list so they have better literacy rates. Book doesn't have male v. female stats. Most of the 30 are in Africa. [/b][/quote]
I think it would be interesting to see how a theocratic based system of rule impacts literacy. simple as that, and also how a theocratic based system impacts the education of the sexes, simple as that
sorry for the confusion