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Emails: permanent written record I can refer to later

Can reply in my own time

Low labour

Low resource use

Phone call: Times/dates mentioned will be forgotten often

Active demand of time

I don't pick up because that phone number looks weird but also my phone's vibrate function is weak

High labour

High data cost per information

My shrink's office seems to want to keep billing information and past/present appointments secret. (This also seems to be worse in local industry, everything has to be a meeting instead of a two line email)

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 40 points 2 months ago (3 children)

My unironic answer is that like, idk, 50? 70? percent of Americans are only semi-literate and cannot write coherent text and struggle to read it.

[–] 12022081631@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i keep encountering people who seem dyslexic but the possibility that they just aren't developing their reading comprehension i suppose is also there desolate

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

How many dyslexic people in the US would ever even get diagnosed? That would require a semblance of healthcare right?

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 11 points 2 months ago

Something like 50% of US adults cannot read at a 6th grade level.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/08/02/us-literacy-rate/

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

I opt for phone calls because I am easily cowed by bureaucratic language and page structure, and I can't ask a page of text questions