Retards need not apply
I just found out that the dumbest shit I write is at the ninth grade level–still way too complicated for the average internet user.
Even with my folksy, down-home writing style, most of my stuff comes in at the 12th grade level and damn near all of my long essays are college and post-graduate level. Seeing as I am educated well past my station in life, I wasn’t surprised at these results since I write what I think and make no effort to dumb it down for the retards. Which, when you think about it, explains a lot about the lack of repeat visitors here, especially from liberals.
On the other hand, if you are a regular reader of my site, you can feel comfortable that you are a pretty fart smucker.
This data comes from the Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level test and the Gunning-Fog index. Very interesting. If you are interested in the readability of your blog, you can go here and plug in some of your own copy to see how it stacks up. Try it. I dare ya. Very fascinating. So much so that I just wasted about an hour plugging in a bunch of my stuff from different categories.
When you are done playing with that little gem, go to JD’s site and say hello, he is the one who turned me on to Flesch-Kincaid.
Update: Just for giggles, I went back to the Readability score page and entered my blog name and original tag, as follows: enormous incongruities. A beacon of intermittence. The results? Off the charts.
Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease: -35
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 19
Gunning-Fog Index: 26
Hmmm. Maybe I do need to rethink my presentation a bit.