Unfuckingbelievable

This story should make the NEA proud:

Study: Infant car seat instructions too difficult for many adults

Instructions for installing child safety seats in cars are written in language too difficult for many adults to understand, researchers say.

Such manuals are written at a tenth-grade reading level on average, according to a new study, while data suggest that nearly a quarter of U.S. adults read at or below a fifth-grade level, and at least 25 percent read at about an eighth-grade level.

Girasek said manufacturers could help by writing installation instructions at a fifth-grade level, which literacy experts say is optimal for understanding health-related information.

"This could be accomplished by using shorter sentences and simpler words. For example, `collision,' `automobile,' and `remedied' could be replaced by `crash,' `car,' and `fixed,"' according to the study.

I guess it's unnecessary to remark that anyone who cannot recognize the word 'automobile' shouldn't be raising kids? Of course they wouldn't be able to understand birth control instruction either.