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Subject:Why do you think Gunning is obsolete? From:John Gear <catalyst -at- PACIFIER -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 2 Nov 1995 08:35:00 PST
>Gunning's Fog Index was fine in the past, but I do not believe it
>is accurate today. I am not knocking Robert Gunning, just stating
>that I think we need a new method of measuring readability.
Why is that? Is your position the result of an intuition or something else?
John Gear (catalyst -at- pacifier -dot- com)
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