OK. So how readable is this blog? Juicy Studio tells us.
Readability Results for http://politicsplusstuff.blogspot.com/
Readability Results
Summary Value
Total sentences 452
Total words 6,940
Average words per Sentence 15.35
Words with 1 Syllable 4,346
Words with 2 Syllables 1,334
Words with 3 Syllables 806
Words with 4 or more Syllables 454
Percentage of word with three or more syllables 18.16%
Average Syllables per Word 1.62
Gunning Fog Index 13.40
Flesch Reading Ease 54.14
Flesch-Kincaid Grade 9.52
Interpreting the Results
Philip Chalmers of Benefit from IT provided the following typical Fog Index scores, to help ascertain the readability of documents.
Typical Fog Index Scores
Fog Index Resources
6 TV guides, The Bible, Mark Twain
8 Reader's Digest
8 - 10 Most popular novels
10 Time, Newsweek
11 Wall Street Journal
14 The Times, The Guardian
15 - 20 Academic papers
Over 20 Only government sites can get away with this, because you can't ignore them.
Over 30 The government is covering something up
OK. If you have finished 9th grade you can read this, and I write at a level between the Wall Street Journal and the Times and Guardian.
Hmm. So my MBA and my status as an anglophile show through.
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