Feb 12 2009
Obama’s Press Conference Answers Three Formal Grade-Levels Higher Than Bush’s First
I”m glad a lot of commenters are pushing back on this entry. Seriously – having a higher degree of difficulty on a Fleish-Kincaid reading analysis is NOT a good thing. Almost certainly, the increased count is because of the higher number of passive sentences. Using your same wordprocessing software to do a spelling and grammar check, you’ll get lots of requests that you fix the passive sentences, because they are harder to understand.
If the goal of communications is to ensure that the listener understands what you’re communicating – Bush wins this round. And since we all know that Obama is actually a better communicator – I think we need better measurements than Fleish-Kincaid.
QT (An avid Obama Supporter!)
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