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Readability tests April 4, 2007

Filed under: Assignment — trinx @ 2:16 am

This week’s Science column in the NYT:
“A Mutinous Group of Cells on a Greedy, Destructive Path” by Natalie Angier
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/health/03angi.html?ref=science

readability of first two paragraphs:

ASL = 40.5

PH = 9.3

GFI = 19.92

Peter Carlson’s Magazine Reader column in the Washington Post, this week entitled “Harper’s Bizarre But GQ Banal“:

ASL = 16.0

PH = 5.2

GFI = 8.48

E! Online, Planet Gossip column, “Heather Mills’ Cover-Up at Dancing With the Stars

ASL = 14.8

PH = 3.0

GFI =  7.1

News story:

Zamboni Driver Skates by Drunken Driving Law (cnn.com)

ASL = 21.0

PH = 9.5

GFI = 12.2

 

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