Who reads books in America, and how?

There’s a couple of surprising results there. One is that the inverse correlation between reading and age that several people have mentioned. The other was that black people apparently read more than white folks. The black experience in America is sadly still one of reduced opportunity, and the other data shows the expected positive correlation between reading and both education and income, so I would have expected black people to read less on average for that reason alone.

Hopefully that’s a positive sign for something.

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