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on 2006-08-10 by john143

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Readability Test

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Readability Test

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Gunning-Fog Index

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a rough measure of how many years of schooling it would take someone to understand the content. The lower the number, the more understandable the content will be to your visitors. Results over seventeen are reported as seventeen, where seventeen is considered post-graduate level.

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Flesch Reading Ease

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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

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an index number that rates the text on a 100-point scale. The higher the score, the easier it is to understand the document. Authors are encouraged to aim for a score of approximately 60 to 70.

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Flesch-Kincaid grade level

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Like the Gunning-Fog index, it is a rough measure of how many years of schooling it would take someone to understand the content. Negative results are reported as zero, and numbers over twelve are reported as twelve.

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Reading Level Algorithms

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They are mathematical formulas, designed to determine the suitability of books for American students at a certain age, or grade level

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they tend to reward short sentences made up of short words.

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Being mathematically based, readability tests are unable to determine the likelihood that the document is comprehensible, interesting, or enjoyable.

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