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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: neolib who wrote (3901)12/29/2016 8:38:57 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 363232
 
They exist. Here's some:

readability-score.com

online-utility.org

readabilityformulas.com



To: neolib who wrote (3901)12/29/2016 8:53:52 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 363232
 
I just ran one. here are the results:

readabilityformulas.com

Text Readability Consensus Calculator
Purpose: Our Text Readability Consensus Calculator uses 7 popular readability formulas to calculate the average grade level, reading age, and text difficulty of your sample text.
Your Results:
Your text: Look, having nuclear?my uncle was a great professo ...(show all text)
r and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart ?you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world?it's true!?but when you're a conservative Republican they try?oh, do they do a number?that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune?you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged?but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me?it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right?who would have thought?), but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners?now it used to be three, now it's four?but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years?but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.

Flesch Reading Ease score: 20.3 (text scale)
Flesch Reading Ease scored your text: very difficult to read.
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Gunning Fog: 30.2 (text scale)
Gunning Fog scored your text: EXTREMELY difficult to read.
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Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 27.4
Grade level: College Graduate and above.
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The Coleman-Liau Index: 7
Grade level: Seventh Grade
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The SMOG Index: 14.1
Grade level: college
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Automated Readability Index: 32.9
Grade level: College graduate
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Linsear Write Formula : 40.3
Grade level: College Graduate and above.
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Readability Consensus
Based on 8 readability formulas, we have scored your text:
Grade Level: 24
Reading Level: very difficult to read.
Reader's Age: College graduate



To: neolib who wrote (3901)12/29/2016 8:55:05 PM
From: bentway  Respond to of 363232
 
I wonder if there are any that evaluate text for narcissism? LOL!