RE: MS Word readability index

["sbuckley" <sbuckley -at- onlinewriter -dot- com>]

I have found this depends a great deal on audience.  If your audience is
"general consumer" to anyone with specific specialized knowledge the index
probably won't help.

I did find the index helpful many years ago when writing internal
documentation for a computer system that was used by an audience whom we had
to assume was 50-80% high school educated and the students had not been
college track. Keeping the text mostly at 4-6th grade level (not kidding)
with a few specialized words produced documentation understandable by over
90% of users.

 
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Behalf Of Peter Lewicke
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 9:33 AM
To: VERKERKEN Wouter; TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: MS Word readability index

The MSFT readability statistics measure certain
things, and whether something makes sense is not what
it measures. A description of what is measured is on
this page. The statistics on a structured document are
usually more amusing than useful, but the results for
pieces of prose are often useful, but you have to
remember what they measure.
http://developer.gnome.org/documents/usability/usability-readability.html


--- VERKERKEN Wouter <Wouter -dot- VERKERKEN -at- swift -dot- com>
wrote:

> 
>    Hi  all,
> 
> 
> 
>    Anyone = ever used the  readability index feature
> (Flesch score
>    etc.) and found that it seems to = work on  some
> documents, but not
>    on other? I mean: on some documents you get the =
> index,  and on
>    some documents you don't, while you have
> requested it in exactly = the
>    same  way. Weird.
> 
> 
> 
>    Thanks,
> 
>    Wouter
>
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