Reflections on science, literature, and history by an American Badger
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
The Internet doesn't lie...
My immunologist friend Andreas Krueger has recently pointed out to me that according to a certain website the reading level of this blog is "Genius". I'm sure this is every bit as scientific as those quizzes that tell you which Star Wars character you are most like. Also, this ranking was made prior to this post -- it would be amusing if this post somehow weakened the rating...
Cool! I tried my own blog (http://genefinding.blogspot.com) and it rated me "High School" - ouch!
But then I figured out that it just rates what is one the main page. I went to some of my previous entries and got two "Genius" ratings and one "College (postgrad)".
So I guess I don't have to go back and re-do my thesis defense after all.
Actually, I'm not so sure a "higher" rating is actually better. While I don't know exactly how the algorithm works, I imagine it is similar to the Flesch–Kincaid Readability Test, which counts the average number of syllables per word. Many newspapers actually aim for a low score under the assumption that this makes text more "readable".
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Cool!
I tried my own blog (http://genefinding.blogspot.com) and it rated me "High School" - ouch!
But then I figured out that it just rates what is one the main page. I went to some of my previous entries and got two "Genius" ratings and one "College (postgrad)".
So I guess I don't have to go back and re-do my thesis defense after all.
Actually, I'm not so sure a "higher" rating is actually better. While I don't know exactly how the algorithm works, I imagine it is similar to the Flesch–Kincaid Readability Test, which counts the average number of syllables per word. Many newspapers actually aim for a low score under the assumption that this makes text more "readable".
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