Disturbing

It certainly is…
"It's appalling -- it's really astounding," said Michael Gorman, president of the American Library Association and a librarian at California State University at Fresno. "Only 31 percent of college graduates can read a complex book and extrapolate from it. That's not saying much for the remainder."
Actually it says quite a bit about the remainder…69 percent CANNOT read a book and extrapolate from it.
“…far fewer are leaving higher education with the skills needed to comprehend routine data, such as reading a table about the relationship between blood pressure and physical activity, according to the federal study conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics "What's disturbing is that the assessment is not designed to test your understanding of Proust, but to test your ability to read labels…”
Labels? Warning labels? That’s scary!