PING: Can You Read Me Now?URL: http://voteforjudges.blogspot.com/2005/04/can-you-read-me-now.htmlIP: 72.9.234.70BLOG NAME: Vote for JudgesDATE: 04/25/2005 10:29:54 PMIf you find your favorite blogs sometimes difficult to decipher, consider this: With the same amount of work, the authors could produce half as much information that was twice as readable. Is that a desireable tradeoff?

We’re not sure whether to be pleased or chagrined that a new web site that calculates the “readability” of other web pages says that ContractsProf Blog is written at the seventh grade level.  On the one hand, we score well (9.99) on something called the Gunning Fog Index, which runs from TV Guide (8.00) through academic paper (17.00), which means we’re about as hard to understand as a John Grisham novel.   He, at least, is a lawyer.  But on the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level calculator, we score only 6.72, which means that seventh graders should have no difficulty following along.

We’ll obviously have to work harder to make things more complex.  Or maybe put in some links to video game chat rooms.