The second point that I want to make is that low literacy in the developing world is unacceptably high. And we see this stratified across upper-middle-income countries, lower-middle-income countries, and low-income countries, where poor literacy is up to 90%. Now the large majority of these children are in school but they're not learning how to read effectively.
So where would we put it? The stratosphere is stratified . Things don't mix well.
Some of this was made possible by a law, the 1996 Telecommunications Act, which took the lid off how many news outlets one company could own. becoming more stratified . And where you're born is more and more where you're going to end up, which is to me, such a threat to a basic conviction
of thousands of children each year who will go on to be adults with poor literacy. And this figure is heavily stratified by social disadvantage, and emerging research coming from the UK and the USA suggests that the problem has gotten worse as a result of pandemic school closures.
We are both more free and less equal than a generation ago. We are more inclusive and more stratified . Those two things have been happening at the same time.
factor for so many children. We know that exposures to adverse childhood experiences is stratified by socioeconomic status as well. This slide shows a bar graph of exposures to various environmental perturbations
And here's where it took him. We live in a world that is becoming unbelievably stratified , where people's lives are unbelievably-- not only routinized, but actually held
So when they vote, when they hire, when they plan, and when they love, we want them to do it with a conscious heart. And so what that means for us is understanding that the workplace is stratified -- by race, by class, by gender, by citizenship status, which
And that's the -- more or less the bipartisan consensus. So this is why we're ending up really as the most stratified of all of these countries.
The other number I want to tell you about is not reported on nearly all cholesterol panels, but I think is one of the most important ratios you So based on this, so waistline targets based on ethnicity are actually stratified because of that jelly-to-crust difference between different cultures.
That's super important in a crisis. disperse to our single-family homes our apartments, our stratified society where rich and poor are
And they would've arrive by steamer through the Isthmus of Panama, which had opened fairly recently. The community that they arrived in was a thriving Jewish community, but it was a highly stratified community. There were the German Jews, who tended to be the more affluent, educated, politically involved Jews.
We have the reports like I showed, we have a social app that we just launched, we have this great outage and alerts platform so we can give you, preemptively, a notification Where we are expanding is into small, medium businesses which in many ways is like a stratified prosumer or heavy, large consumer.
OK. So why am I stressing this? Even with sport-- I emphasized the whole GAA thing, the community thing-- but we know that sport itself is class stratified .
And most people think of the Victorians as being uptight. Not every single human culture has the number zero, writing, architecture, agriculture, stratified social structures.
you have heard "Brave New World" but very few people have read "The Island". He wanted to try and think about a literary antidote to what he was seeing with "Brave New World". This idea of a highly medicated society where no one has time, everyone is in a highly regulated and very stratified culture and "The Island" was meant to be the antidote for what he had seen in his own vision of the near future. "Brave New World" is one of my favorite books. "The Island"
an important place to do a population study, was that it was, as the researchers called, "exquisitely stratified ". So you had through the ranks of the civil service, through the