CrunchGear posts at an elementary school reading level

elementary_school

Using the Blog Readability Test tool shows that the articles contained herein are accessible to people with at least an elementary school reading level. Go ahead and plug in your own blog and some of the sites you read on a regular basis. It’s strangely addictive.

I was hard-pressed to find another site that was written at the same level as ours. Most of the ones I plugged in were at least at the junior high level, many were high school level, and a few were "genius" level.

While some might be quick to conclude that our low level reading requirements could possibly be the result of shoddy journalistic workmanship, we’d prefer to think of our little corner of the web as a place that’s warm and welcoming to even the littlest readers around. Actually, the thought of an elementary school-aged child reading anything here is horrifying.

The Blog Readability Test. What level of education is required to understand your blog? [Criticsrant.com] via Neatorama

  •   

4 Comments/Pingbacks so far

 
no image
pickupjojo (Who am I?)

My blog’s reading level is “elementary school” too! ^^
Nice tool.

 
no image
fowgre (Who am I?)

My blog was having a good day and aced it, although I’m not sure that’s a good thing. I hate the thought of people avoiding my site because they might think it’s for nerdy Mensa types.

 
no image
Mike Malone (Who am I?)

Sweet, so they ripped off something I made 6 months ago that built on work done by other people without giving anyone credit… that’s cool.

http://immike.net/blog/2007/05/19/how-readable-is-your-blog/

 
no image
greatslack (Who am I?)

So apparently Engadget is at a Genius level, while Huffington Post is at a Junior High level. Sounds like a faulty algorithm to me.

Trackbacks/Pings

Leave a Comment

« Back to text comment

Comment template by SezWho

CrunchGear Sponsors