Not the high-brow result I expected or feel I deserve. A friend of mine, an English department chair at a local high school, told me these programs look for "big words" and words not oft-used. So I did an experiment.
I gave it the URL for yesterday's post as well as a post from a couple weeks ago, both having "big words" and got this [better] result:
OK, so what's your blog's reading level? Are you surprised? Did you think you were smarter? Or dumber?
8 comments:
See, I'm an elementary school level blog and proud of it.
It just means I manage to convey my point without going over the heads of my poorly educated and backward readers.
Holy crap, I got "genius" first shot out of the box.
Then I laughed until I peed a little.
iamnot, who are you calling backward?
Rainey, lovely vision, thanks for sharing. You need to sit in the corner and think about exaggerating your intelligence. And peeing on the floor.
Mine was jr. high too. I sometimes feel like I'm stuck in jr. high, so that seems to fit.
The junior high level is much preferred over the genius level. If one writes a blog that is only read by people with a genius reading ability, it means that the blog is beyond the enjoyment and understanding of the many people who might like to come there. If they stumble over cumbersome or unusual words, they will quickly move on to another blog.
Now, a blog at junior high level is something that can be enjoyed by all. This has nothing to do with whether one is smarter or dumber. It's all about the audience that one is writing for. Remember, reading and comprehension are not strong subjects in schools these days.
Mine is high school level. I've seen this on other blogs. It seems to me that if you use a lot of the words my mother said were bad words the level drops to elementary of kindergarten. Your blog is enjoyable reading so it must be just right.
I was elementary level only because they didn't have preschool as a possible level.
Laughing till I peed a little when I read Lorraine's comment...
Mom, so not only are my thoughts small but when I curse, I get points off as well? i thot it was just gramical areas i had to chang.
I'm with greeny. Elementary school here. By the time I get around to blogging I'm too tired to think of big words. Just little ones. That suits me better anyway.
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