Bullish sentiment rebounded to its first above-average reading since mid-November in the latest AAII Sentiment Survey.
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Pupils aged seven and eight had chosen books which an average reading age of eight years and 10 months.
Average reading scores were higher for girls than for boys in all countries.
There is also concern that there is a wide gap between the achievements of white and black pupils, with black 17 year olds having an average reading age four years behind their white counterparts.
Rhode Island, for example, in 2009 passed regulations requiring that all health insurance policies in the state, beginning in 2010, be written at an eighth-grade level, which is the average reading level for state residents.
Certainly there is variability in performance, with the U.S. scoring above average in reading and civics, average in science, and somewhat below average in mathematics.
The first PISA study, in 2000, placed German pupils well below the OECD average for reading and literacy.
In Cameroon, there is on average one reading textbook for eleven pupils and one mathematics book for 13 children.
Harvard University's Programme on Education Policy and Governance found that, after two years, pupils at Cleveland's private schools performed seven percentage points higher than the national average in reading and 15 points higher in maths.
But this is only one percentage point higher than in 2000, and on average boys' reading and writing abilities still fall consistently below girls'.
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That one data point tilts the whole reading on average performance of new issues.
British pupils fare relatively well in science, performing better than the OECD average, but in reading and mathematics they are mediocre.
Martin's fantasy novel "A Dance With Dragons" finished the book, and spent an average of 20 hours reading it, a relatively fast read for a 1, 040-page novel.
The program required more reading than the average graduate student had to complete in a similar time frame.
Rather it is just one standard deviation away from its average, making the current reading atypical, but not an outlier.
From the Title I elementary school, the data were even more telling: With five months' worth of books, the children of the title I school increase their reading ability on average of two levels!
The graduating class of 2012 posted an average score of 496 in reading, a one-point drop from 2011 and a 34-point decline since 1972, the first year the College Board began tracking the scores of "college-bound" seniors.
These gained, on average, five percentage points in reading and 15 points in maths, compared with national norms.
Yet, the average adult today would have difficulty reading Common Sense, let alone understanding the arguments, and articulating the basic premise.
In addition the Dow was struggling with its 200-week simple moving average, and my annual resistance reading from my proprietary analytics was at 11, 235.
In Ghana, for example, sixth-graders sitting a simple multiple-choice reading test scored on average the same mark that would be gained by random guessing.
They fall behind by an average of over two months in their reading.
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While the OECD survey found that Australians rank their life-satisfaction at 7.2 out of 10, higher than the average of 6.6, the reading is below levels recorded in Mexico, Norway and neighboring New Zealand.
The feature starts with an average number and then adjusts as it learns your reading habits.
Optimism is currently more than one standard deviation beyond its historical average, meaning that this is an unusually high reading.
It is also more than one standard deviation below the historical average of 30%, making this an unusually low reading.
This being said, from my point of view, all those technical solutions are worthless if your reading experience is not leveled with what the average reader is accustomed to.
Last year's survey found that figure had risen to an average of 173 hours, including preparatory work such as reading board papers and travelling back and forth to meetings.
Four out of five students in England said science helped them to understand things around them, but only 38% said they liked reading about science - well below the OECD average.
These measures include the current reading, the number of weeks above its historical average and the eight-week moving average.
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