Via Monkey Cage comes a link to a study that shows that the average speech comprehension level in the United States Congress has dropped a full grade level in the past seven years. It’s dropped to 10.6 from 11.5.
Over the past 16 years, the Republicans and Democrats have traded places when it comes to scoring lower grade levels on the comprehension scale. The party scores were never more than 0.2 or 0.4 apart, but since 2006, the Republicans score lower than the Democrats.
