It's a time waster for sure. I write on two sites and checked the homepage of each. Got a 72% and an 83%. Well Kinda manly but I knew I could do better. I checked a few of the pages (the ones most manly) and found an 87%. Ha Ha Ha manly indeed.
Another time waster is http://www.addedbytes.com/tools/readability-score/ I am not sure where I found it, might even have been here. My first sample rated a seventh grade readability level. I could do better than that! I finally wrote a few paragraphs at a 30.72 grade level. I belong in the academy, or locked up.
A sample:Perforce one must conceptualize a world-view parenthetically consistent with perceptual modalities contemporaneously determinable by usage of postmodernistic interpretation and allowing for appropriate deconstruction; agglomeration being insufficient and utterly nondeterministic in cases such as this, though the aforementioned does trend to rote application by those not necessarily skilled in such arcane---nay archaic---technical pursuit.
I gave up aiming for higher as I almost understand that.
john hare wrote:
My sample rated tenth grade for readability. Reading lower, I realized that they were saying that it took a tenth grade educational level to read my sample. Seems like a good average to me, lower won't get the point across, and higher makes it more difficult to read.
Yes, well, I plugged in Lincoln's Gettysburg address, and it says you need 10.7 years of education to understand it.
Do I think most of Lincoln's 1863 audience had 10+ years of formal education? Ha ha.
So then I plugged in the Preamble of the Constitution ("We the people..."), and I'm told it needs 22.7 years of education to understand.
Well. No wonder only deep-thinking law professors are qualified to be President.
Carl Pham wrote:
Hmm. If I plug the Constitution into the sex analyzer -- it's not a "gender" analyzer, damn it: nouns have gender, living things have a sex -- then it says the Constitution is 85% written by a man.
Then again, if I plug in the Seneca Falls Declaration (demanding suffrage for women), we get 79% male.
I put in the complete text from my two-week-old blog and got a 90% male rating, which is funny considering that my wife calls me the gayest straight man she knows. It's probably just my good grooming and impeccable fashion sense.
And a 10.76 grade level rating, which feels about right.
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This page contains a single entry by Rand Simberg published on November 23, 2008 7:36 AM.
Вот это пост! Сильно. Спасибо.
It's a time waster for sure. I write on two sites and checked the homepage of each. Got a 72% and an 83%. Well Kinda manly but I knew I could do better. I checked a few of the pages (the ones most manly) and found an 87%. Ha Ha Ha manly indeed.
Another time waster is http://www.addedbytes.com/tools/readability-score/ I am not sure where I found it, might even have been here. My first sample rated a seventh grade readability level. I could do better than that! I finally wrote a few paragraphs at a 30.72 grade level. I belong in the academy, or locked up.
A sample:Perforce one must conceptualize a world-view parenthetically consistent with perceptual modalities contemporaneously determinable by usage of postmodernistic interpretation and allowing for appropriate deconstruction; agglomeration being insufficient and utterly nondeterministic in cases such as this, though the aforementioned does trend to rote application by those not necessarily skilled in such arcane---nay archaic---technical pursuit.
I gave up aiming for higher as I almost understand that.
My sample rated tenth grade for readability. Reading lower, I realized that they were saying that it took a tenth grade educational level to read my sample. Seems like a good average to me, lower won't get the point across, and higher makes it more difficult to read.
The site is totally flawed.
These guys are probably having a big laugh.
Yes, well, I plugged in Lincoln's Gettysburg address, and it says you need 10.7 years of education to understand it.
Do I think most of Lincoln's 1863 audience had 10+ years of formal education? Ha ha.
So then I plugged in the Preamble of the Constitution ("We the people..."), and I'm told it needs 22.7 years of education to understand.
Well. No wonder only deep-thinking law professors are qualified to be President.
Hmm. If I plug the Constitution into the sex analyzer -- it's not a "gender" analyzer, damn it: nouns have gender, living things have a sex -- then it says the Constitution is 85% written by a man.
Then again, if I plug in the Seneca Falls Declaration (demanding suffrage for women), we get 79% male.
I plugged in a large section of DC vs Heller and came out at a high seventh grade level. No wonder it made sense to me.
I put in the complete text from my two-week-old blog and got a 90% male rating, which is funny considering that my wife calls me the gayest straight man she knows. It's probably just my good grooming and impeccable fashion sense.
And a 10.76 grade level rating, which feels about right.