Welcome Grade 9's!
Earlier today I stumbled across the JuicyStudio Readability Test and, after submitting this page got the following results:
The first thing I notice is that there's a pretty big discrepancy between Gunning Fog and Flesch-Kincaid: three years is 50% of the FK score. I guess it's grain of salt time. Still, it's nice to see that I write at (at least) a grade 6 level. Well, a dumb Grade 6, anyway. The Flesch Ease level is interesting though because a score of 60-70 is supposedly the 'target' level, so at 72, I'm actually writing at a level slightly above what I "should" be targeting. Presumably this readability measure is calibrated to average reading level, meaning that most people read at less than a Grade 9 level according to the more generous Gunning Fog Index, or less than Grade 6 according to the less optimistic scale.
Which leads me to wonder: If most people read at less than a Grade 9 level and you have to go to school through grade 12, then do reading skills degrade, or are there more drop-outs and fewer college graduates than I'm aware of, or are these tests just maybe bogus?
- Gunning Fog Index = 9.14 (represents years of schooling needed to understand content)
- Flesch Reading Ease = 72.5 (out of 100, higher number more readable)
- Flesch-Kincaid Grade = 6.05 (roughly, the years of school needed to understand content)
The first thing I notice is that there's a pretty big discrepancy between Gunning Fog and Flesch-Kincaid: three years is 50% of the FK score. I guess it's grain of salt time. Still, it's nice to see that I write at (at least) a grade 6 level. Well, a dumb Grade 6, anyway. The Flesch Ease level is interesting though because a score of 60-70 is supposedly the 'target' level, so at 72, I'm actually writing at a level slightly above what I "should" be targeting. Presumably this readability measure is calibrated to average reading level, meaning that most people read at less than a Grade 9 level according to the more generous Gunning Fog Index, or less than Grade 6 according to the less optimistic scale.
Which leads me to wonder: If most people read at less than a Grade 9 level and you have to go to school through grade 12, then do reading skills degrade, or are there more drop-outs and fewer college graduates than I'm aware of, or are these tests just maybe bogus?
posted by Brent at 10:32 PM
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