I’ve just been having a bit of fun with this… The Blog Readability Test. What level of education is required to understand your blog? – as seen on David Cushman’s site.
Apparently you require a “high school” education to read this blog.
I haven’t dug around to see what, if any, algorithm is being used to calculate readability.
Rather worryingly when I put http://news.bbc.co.uk in it came back saying you needed to have a college postgrad education to read it, and to be able to read www.google.com you need to be a Genius. Something fishy going on there methinks.
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Hi Nic, looks to me pretty much like the more content, the greater the IQ score (hence, wikipedia, google and bbc scoring genius!)
Have you seen the readability score you can get for your writing when using google docs?
Sam, please elaborate!
create a google doc, paste in some text, file / wordcount, RH col are some readability scores, click the ? for more info.
PS Nice fav icon
Interesting, I didn’t know about that thanks. I guess hiding it under Word Count doesn’t help.
I just tried it on a document I’d been drafting and got the following: