The Weight Of The Words
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I recently discovered a web site that rates blogs on readability, or the "level of education that is required to understand your blog". I hadn't really thought about this before - I've just assumed that most everyone who has a basic command of the English language could understand what I've written. But now the people at Critics Rant have created a web script that analyzes web pages and determines what level of education is needed to read the analyzed web site. I don't know what parameters they use to make their determination, but it seems to me that there are too many variables involved to accurately assign an educational grade level to the reading level a particular web site using only scripting code. So I don't put a lot of stock in this rating, but it's interesting to me in a technological way - someone wrote the code to search blogs (it also works on web sites), rate the type of words used, and determine a level of comparative educational understanding. Cool, but it's really all for fun - after all, you'd think that a guy in his fifties who got A's in college English could write better than high school level, but according to Critics Rant, that apparently not in the case... maybe if I had written more sentences like "She remained entirely pusillanimous and supercilious, yet her enticing pulchritude and luminosity were thoroughly debilitating" I would have gotten a better score.
More sagacious than pedantic
www.nonaverage.net/insomanywords/
Comments can only be left at the new location.
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I recently discovered a web site that rates blogs on readability, or the "level of education that is required to understand your blog". I hadn't really thought about this before - I've just assumed that most everyone who has a basic command of the English language could understand what I've written. But now the people at Critics Rant have created a web script that analyzes web pages and determines what level of education is needed to read the analyzed web site. I don't know what parameters they use to make their determination, but it seems to me that there are too many variables involved to accurately assign an educational grade level to the reading level a particular web site using only scripting code. So I don't put a lot of stock in this rating, but it's interesting to me in a technological way - someone wrote the code to search blogs (it also works on web sites), rate the type of words used, and determine a level of comparative educational understanding. Cool, but it's really all for fun - after all, you'd think that a guy in his fifties who got A's in college English could write better than high school level, but according to Critics Rant, that apparently not in the case... maybe if I had written more sentences like "She remained entirely pusillanimous and supercilious, yet her enticing pulchritude and luminosity were thoroughly debilitating" I would have gotten a better score.
More sagacious than pedantic
posted by Ruben at
11:54 AM
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