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Flesch-Kincaid

Started by Al Billings · 11 months ago

The Flesch-Kincaid scale measures the readability of writing. This came up today because someone ran a section of Neil Gaiman’s new novel that is available through this. Microsoft Word gives you the option of displaying readability after a spelling and grammar check.
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  • Peter Kincaid

    4 years ago

    I deveoped the Flesch-Kincaid formula in 1974 and went on to lead the US Navy team which developed the style and grammer check which was the prototype on which the current MicroSoft Word system is based.

    Like you, I also tend to use long sentences and passive voice in my formal writing.

    After all these years, I'm surprised that the F-K formala is still used so much
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  • Carla

    9 months ago

    I'm not sure what that is saying about your writing, at all. I think much of the time it is give and take. I'm in grade 12 and most of mine consistantly range around the 12 section, but I do every now and then go up to 13 or 13.5. How much of an educated read this machine can make, I think, is limited. It judges passive voice as a set back, far as I know, as it does with WperS.
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