I gauged the readability of these 278 words with the Flesch-Kincaid readability test, which is widely used to assess documents.
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WebMD got the best score for readability while Wikipedia scored the worst, although the analysis found no correlation between quality and readability.
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The new analysis in JAMA measured the readability and understandability of notification letters and found that most were written at a level higher than the recommended seventh- or eighth-grade readability level, and many were at a high school or college readability level.
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Readability may be more a function of the short-form medium than the candidates' actual rhetoric and messaging strategies, but Sanders' readability scored 6.4, Trump's a 6.2, and Biden's a 6 (the simplest).
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Some minor spelling and formatting errors have been corrected for readability.
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I've only slightly formatted for readability and haven't changed any words.
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Some minor formatting and spelling errors have been changed for readability.
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Super-terse code often comes at the cost of readability and maintainability.
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"Destiny 1 could have been better on the readability scale," she said.
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It analyzes your text, calculates a readability score and gives you feedback.
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This interview has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity and readability.
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Below is a transcript of the episode, edited for readability and clarity.
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I've made some slight changes for readability but left things mostly intact.
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The screen has extra-large numbers and is backlit for easy readability.
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But for everyone else, screen readability and UI navigation aren't actually that bad.
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Besides using several readability measurements, your writing also gets rated for density and sentiment.
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It's in the top five for readability, with an average grade level of 9.9.
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CNBC has previously reported on the readability of political debates, both Republican and Democrat.
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But there are some arguments about readability, though they seem to be a minority.
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Here's what he said, more or less verbatim, broken into bullet points for readability.
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Can you talk about this evolution and the idea of readability and image-making?
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Facebook says in its blog post that the new look is supposed to improve readability.
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Quotation length is capped at 600 characters to ensure readability (and curtail any copyright concerns).
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But when the reporting structure is normalized and enforced, machine readability is automatic and painless.
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Although more complex to produce than a simple date aperture, the large date offers superior readability.
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It is the very transparency of the process, its readability, that fades under the viewer's gaze.
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"It was also a struggle trying to find the balance between art and readability," Mendoza explains.
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Miller stages their fights creatively, and with a crisp, precise readability that makes every blow meaningful.
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With it, Android users on phones and tablets can enjoy full page layouts without sacrificing readability.
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And I think the readability on mobile has gotten better, all of our phones are faster.
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Volvo's infotainment interface adopts more colorful home-screen tiles and rejiggers some icons for better readability.
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Despite its readability, "The First Congress" has almost as many problems as the Congress itself had.
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To restore it to readability required that the phone be unlocked, by entering the PIN correctly.
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That resistance to readability is key to what separates Hull from his more figuratively inclined forebears.
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The researchers used a standard readability scale to measure how easily readers would understand the material.
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These emails have been edited for clarity and readability, but their meaning has not been changed.
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It makes a huge difference to readability and that's really the most important part of a reader.
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To see how your content ranks, you can use free tools like the Text Readability Consensus Calculator.
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Gershon seems determined to relinquish some readability in order to produce a complete record of a place.
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This window gives you a breakdown of your word count, words per sentence and your readability scores.
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"Placing the fine guilloché patterns behind the hands improved the readability of the watch," Mr. Breguet added.
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Despite her many accolades, Tyler is sometimes dismissed for her books' readability, for their deeply familiar pleasures.
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For one, the practice is anachronistic, which I believe does damage to the Times's readability and relevance.
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Few providers routinely assess their patient's health literacy or the readability of health education materials provided to patients.
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They will generally repurpose your video into a 30-seconds clip with bold text overlay for maximum readability.
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These should stand out from your other text (but don't get too creative with the format, see: readability!).
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The argument descends into an extended metaphor about randomized text generators creating comprehensible pamphlets by selecting for readability.
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The telescopic arm extends up to eight inches and pivots on a wide arc for easy readability and access.
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This sort of decoration is complex and expensive and was originally designed for improved readability on old pocket watches.
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Specialised eReaders are designed for portability, feature a lengthy battery life and are optimised for readability, especially in sunlight.
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But between staying true to hard data and embellishing it for readability (or for clicks) is a balancing act.
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You'll walk through the 12 key steps to writing compelling copy, with an emphasis on headlines, readability, simplicity, and more.
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Some of the issues with Helvetica centered around uneven kerning—the spacing between letters—and readability issues at small sizes.
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It's also touch sensitive, and the UI is designed with maximizing information and readability while minimizing input required in mind.
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The posts were analyzed for their readability and lexical diversity, a measure of how many different words someone uses while writing.
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For states with a law in place in 2016, the researchers looked at whether the letters' readability had changed by 2018.
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The data comprising her vector-based drawings and animations are equally limited in lifespan, since their readability depends on computer software.
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A character tells how her husband lost his status as a writer when his novel fails to hit the "readability quotient".
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You can change the color of the minute and second markers, but unless they're neon yellow or green, readability is compromised.
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This is old-fashioned science fiction, which neither strives for accuracy nor ease of readability, but falls somewhere wonderfully in-between.
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This is in contrast to third-generation languages like Java and C++, with the difference being in abstraction and human-readability.
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ReadabilityFor those of you using Readability to clean up the clutter of the web, Kindle support is only a couple of clicks away too—if you install the extension for Chrome, then you can send articles to your Kindle straight from the browser or beam them from your saved list of pages inside your Readability account.
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Past nonfiction efforts — like several that have tried to create textbooks from Wikipedia articles or other sources — often stumble over readability issues.
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It's been proposed to overcome what's known as the "magnetic recording trilemma," which describes the need to balance readability, writability, and stability.
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Of course, there are different ways to calculate readability and different software returns varying figures even for the Flesch-Kincaid grade level.
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Both have been edited very slightly for readability, and the interview with Putnam is a combination of conversations from two different days.
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Use the Flesch-Kincaid readability test (built into Microsoft Word and Google Docs) to test the reading-level complexity of your writing.
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Ms Hengel analysed the readability of the abstracts of nearly 2,000 papers published between 1950 and 2015 in the top four economics journals.
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Two-spacers, though, claim their way improves readability, which is the same reason the American Psychological Association gave when advocating for two spaces.
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These sorts of changes benefit readability, but they also mean there's less content visible on the page before you have to scroll down.
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For 19403, the charge was for something warmer while preserving the dial's readability, said Anthony de Haas, director of product development at Lange.
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The same for errors in spelling, grammar, NYT style; general tone and possible bias of articles and headlines; readability and organization of articles.
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Yet Jansen and Calomiris both noted one limitation of the readability analysis: It does not consider the meaning of the words being analyzed.
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While this may alleviate readability issues and even inject some fun into otherwise monotonous documents, for Becher and Benoliel, it raises other concerns.
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To compare publicly-available information about breast density, researchers also measured the readability levels of seven top websites that discussed dense breasts, including breastcancer.
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The large painting "Orpheus" contains urgently curtailed marks that hint at the word Orpheus while refusing to move completely beyond gesture into actual readability.
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A crux of the campaign was the contagious readability of the VW copy—convincing and effortless without clutter, just the right amount of text.
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All the changes today are a big boost for readability and usability, though for some creators they also may be a double-edged sword.
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In the latest from Opinion's Privacy Project, one writer analyzed the length and readability of policies from popular websites and apps (including The Times's).
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His ideas were greeted warmly by Italian leftists, who regarded the Risorgimento as a failed revolution, but his sheer readability also contributed to sales.
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The bottles, made by designer Deborah Adler, prioritized the information that was most important to the user, and emphasized readability and ease of use.
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Difficult readability: The bendiness means some of the text is significantly deformed, and so any information it is meant to convey will be more difficult.
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Of the states with letters in 2016, the readability level remained about the same, except for Missouri, which dropped from college-level to eighth grade.
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Articles you click on get put into readability mode, so you don't have to worry too much about ads or bad layouts on your Watch.
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A sample of the complaints filed with the FTC from the past year appear below, with some minor spelling and formatting errors corrected for readability.
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If you want to not even have the problem about lipsync readability, grow a Poirot mustache and you can get away with quite a lot.
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Holup's works defy the readability of a landscape in a conventional, Eurocentric understanding, inserting her into an ongoing discussion of place-painting in art history.
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Those who offer rock-bottom prices for translation are almost certainly using translation software, and then giving it a quick edit for accuracy and readability.
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Java: Python: To many, the verbosity of Java translates to code readability, which is fair enough, but it really depends on how it's being used.
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All those things count against the character limit, which means the text is unduly constricted and often messily run together with code, reducing its readability.
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Title fonts like these prioritize readability; they're marketable to a wide audience and, one might assume, generally easier and cheaper to produce than artier custom designs.
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Both screens retain their readability and usability in bright sunlight outdoors, again underlining the versatility of this prototype as a do-it-all note-taking device.
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The book's readability could also be attributed to the familiarity of its constructs, with deference to the Shakespearian band of players and the Dickensian world Tarbean.
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Skype also toned down its over-the-top use of color in the app and introduced a Skype "Classic" blue theme adjusted for contrast and readability.
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In the latest from Opinion's Privacy Project, one writer analyzed the length and readability of policies from popular websites and apps, including The New York Times's.
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Both determine which stories to feature based on their judgement of a source's relevance and authority, though Bing also weighs "readability" and "originality" into its rankings.
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Graphic designer benjamin bannister laid out exactly what a better card design could have looked like, where information is prioritized based on its importance: Readability matters.
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The proposal aims to improve readability of disclosures companies provide investors in regulatory filings while discouraging companies from including repetitive or non-material information, the SEC said.
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Before you perform a spelling and grammar check, make sure you have the boxes checked for "Check Grammar with Spelling" and "Show Readability Statistics" in your Preferences.
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Overall, readability scores averaged at the 11th-grade level, far higher than the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommendation for a 6th-grade reading level.
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In the internet privacy policy graph, the quantitative variables are the time (in minutes) required to read a policy and the readability score as determined using Lexile.
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President Donald Trump has long been faulted for his use of English, with the Flesch-Kincaid readability test once scoring the president at a fourth-grade level.
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When you create hierarchy like this in your presentation, Johnston emphasized that a related benefit emerges: It creates white space, which helps improve readability for your viewers.
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When Bing's algorithm chooses which stories to display, it takes into consideration whether the source of the news ranks well for newsworthiness, originality, authority, relevance and readability.
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Thek created paintings and sculptures by collaging newspapers and other, often unrecognizable, objects, then painting over them, obscuring some newspaper passages beyond readability, while leaving others alone.
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If you've ever been in a Swiss railway station, you've seen the inspiration for Mondaine, whose line of watches and clocks use stark clarity to aid in readability.
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Business The Fed's policy statements grew so complicated after the recession that standard gauges of readability suggested people needed four years of university or more to understand them.
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At first glance, Save to Google looks similar to browser extensions like Pocket or Readability, which allow users to save articles from the web and read them later.
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Even more extreme, there are popular websites and apps on our graph that have a post-college readability level and require as much as 35 minutes to read.
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The software company (whose services include readability analysis) analyzed the websites of 50 of the biggest U.S. banks, looking at metrics such a sentence length and ease of reading.
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Again, to provide optimal readability, the latest versions of the SW Chrono feature a 45 mm dial, and a rail track over the motion work in fine watchmaking tradition.
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But the web was simply not designed for reading 10 feet away from the screen, despite changes made by Perlman and other developers that specifically focused on television readability.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Fed's policy statements grew so complicated after the recession that standard gauges of readability suggested people needed four years of university or more to understand them.
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Here's the sign-up.) Good morning, We're covering the mass protests in Hong Kong, the Japanese prime minister's trip to Iran and the readability (or lack thereof) of privacy policies.
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It would be reductive to claim that this is entirely a result of the readability of classical Chinese, but I think it's reasonable to propose that there is some influence.
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In the introduction, she describes working with more than 20 researchers to transcribe the interviews, which she then edited, she says, for "readability," a word that calls for more explication.
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Readability: You want to be able to glance at the thermostat from across the room to easily see the current temperature and whether it's currently heating or cooling your home.
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According to a new paper published on SSRN (Social Science Research Network), the average readability level of the agreements reviewed by the researchers was comparable to articles in academic journals.
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It has software additions that improve readability too: You can choose from even more font sizes, degrees of boldness, and inverse colors (like making the text white and the background black).
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"That approach was demanded, we explained," wrote Justice Kagan, "'in view of the grave nature of deportation' — a 'drastic measure,' often amounting to lifelong 'banishment or exile'" (cleaned up for readability).
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More recently, Google revamped the Google News tab on the desktop to organize articles in a card-style layout, which was meant to improve readability and better highlight the publisher sources.
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A good way to find out—both philosophically and truthfully, and also from a content-organization, readability, shareability, viralability perspective—is to arrange them in a bracket and compare them binarily.
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A privacy policy that is unusual compared to the others is from the BBC, which takes about 13 minutes to read and has a readability score of about 1000 (tenth grade).
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READMEThe e-ink screen offers more pros (great readability, excellent battery life, easy to see in bright sunlight) than cons (slow refresh, occasional on-screen artifacts, no backlight for working at night).
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The novel opens with the crime, so its readability (helped by Sam Taylor's cool translation) comes from the back story: the transformation of Louise from good fairy to madwoman in the attic.
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Similarly, Zoho is using Zia in its document editor and presentation tools to provide better grammar and spellchecking tools (and it'll now offer a readability score and tips for improving your text).
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While the quality of the sources was significantly better on websites from academic medical centers than private physician practices, researchers didn't find meaningful differences in readability based on the type of site.
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"Using OneNote in this mode can improve readability in low light environments, increase legibility of the user interface as well as your notes, provide better contrast, and reduce eye strain," claims Microsoft.
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The size and style of a font is often key to readability and eye comfort, so it stands to reason that you may want to tweak the font settings on your devices.
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You can rename the bookmark (website URLs are often quite long, so it can be helpful to shorten the name for readability) and choose which bookmark folder in which to store it.
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Similarly, typos or 'leetspeek' (replacing common letters with numbers, so 'GEEK' becomes 'G33K', and so on), are also effective at tricking the AI while still retaining the original message's readability and emotional impact.
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Fittingly, it was originally known as Read it Later, and was in a long-running feud with apps that accomplished much the same thing: Evernote, Instapaper, Readability and, eventually, Apple's own Reading List.
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The suggestion is that The Shadow in the Garden is written on behalf of all the biographers whose honesty about their subjects was interpreted as gossip, or whose readability was maligned as salaciousness.
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Clarity and readability, however, are never an issue, as her black-and-white pages, with their airy style that is reminiscent of Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts cartoons, remain reader-friendly throughout the book.
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Pressbot looks at headlines, the story's topics, sentiment and readability — among dozens of other characteristics — and matches that up with its analytics to predict how well a story will do before it's been published.
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There were only a handful of fonts available on all browsers, different web browsers rendered HTML differently from each other, and there wasn't much flexibility in altering horizontal or vertical spacing to improve readability.
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Fullwood refutes that with the following fact: Richard Feynman's lectures on physics, in which the Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, have a readability level of Grade 8 on the Flesch-Kincaid scale.
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In its blog post, WhatsApp said its tests focused on maintaining readability in low light situations by using colors similar to the ones already used by devices as well as helping users identify important information.
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In January, readers needed about three years of college to easily parse the Fed's policy statement, according to the Reuters analysis, which used a standard readability index known as the Flesch-Kincaid grade-level formula.
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Most studies on readability suggest consumer-facing texts should be written at no more than an eighth-grade reading level when using the F-K test, or have an FRE score of 60 or above.
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It, too, was in the running for the National Book Award — seemingly a David-and-Goliath contest in terms of the authors' reputations — but the readability and psychological acumen of Professor Ward's version won the day.
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The Folio group oversees its own literary prize, a rival to the Man Booker, established after the 2011 Man Booker chairwoman of judges, Stella Rimington, stressed "readability" and books that "zip along," according to The Guardian.
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The way a website flows, the placement of buttons on a mobile interface, the clarity and readability of the accompanying language—all of these things and more affect a user's experience of a brand and its products.
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She also finds that the abstracts of papers written by women are significantly improved (according to an objective measure of readability) between submission and final draft, and that as their careers progress, the women's first drafts improve.
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Linda Connor's photograph "The Patient One, Lamayuro Monastery, Ladakh, India" (1988) was brought into this section for Way Bay 2, and is one such welcome work that helps to hone the overall readability of the macro-composition.
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First, Save to Google lacks a major feature of these read-it-later extensions, which strip away CSS and HTML formatting to present clean, plain-text articles that users can access on websites like Pocket and Readability.
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Chrome has an experimental tool called DOM Distiller that offers the same stripped-down look and third-party browser extensions like Readability and other accessibility add-ons from the Chrome Store can also simplify pages for better browsing.
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Readability To Reduce Hoax Sites – News Feed will now have a more lightweight, readable design with bigger link previews that put the URL domain above the headline so people are more likely to notice and avoid spoofed URLs.
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"Based on common measures of text readability, the introductory statement delivered at our last ECB press conference was only accessible to university graduates, who constitute only around a third of the euro area population," Coeure told a conference.
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Critical of the superficiality and readability of Time Teletext's news coverage, early users in San Diego and Orlando were drawn instead to an entirely new source of entertainment that had, before Teletext, barely penetrated the suburban living room.
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When you perform a spelling and grammar check on your document or on a selection of text, either correct or don't correct any possible errors and then hit "ok" on the dialogue box to bring up your readability statistics.
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While Evernote ballooned in scope and Readability folded, Pocket has seen modest continuous success in its original mission, funded by increasing rounds totaling $14.5 million, the latest being a $7 million C round in early 2015 led by Foundation Capital.
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Now, the Android robot (which still doesn't have an official name) will be featured more prominently in the Android logo, while the color of the logo text itself has been changed from lime green to black to promote better readability.
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The jump is one from SD to HD and works miracles when it comes to text readability, allowing Oculus to begin pursuing some more text-heavy initiatives like including the first build of its WebVR-powered mobile browser in the latest update.
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Becher and Dr. Uri Benoliel, from the College of Law and Business in Ramat-Gan, Israel, selected 500 of the most popular US websites that featured these types of contracts and applied two widely accepted readability tests to their terms and conditions.
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While there's not one fix-all solution for sign-in-wrap readability issues, both F-K and FRE tests are already in use by some federal and state agencies to ensure documents such as tax forms and health benefit plans are readable.
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"The Mirror Thief" is Martin Seay's debut novel, and it arrived covered in prepublication blurbs from indie booksellers proclaiming its brilliance, its similarity to David Mitchell's "Cloud Atlas," its compulsive readability and so on, and everything in its opening pages seemed to sparkle and shine.
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Ms. Hengel, the University of Liverpool economist, used readability tests to conclude that papers written by female economists are on average up to 6 percent better-written than those of men, and that those by women languish in peer review a half-year longer than those of men.
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Also, your phone lies flat on this charger, which reduces readability if you want to easily peer at the screen while it charges or easily unlock the iPhone X's Face ID. The RavPower 7.5W Wireless Charging Stand addresses both issues with two charging coils for wireless charging that's more foolproof.
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Usability expert Jakob Nielsen, while impressed at the level of readability WebTV's developers got out of the device ("you have to see it to believe," Nielsen said of how clear the text showed up on a high-quality TV of the era), ultimately found the experience too limited for everyday use.
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The leak also suggests Apple will put a True Tone Display in the OLED iPhone X. True Tone was introduced with the 9.7-inch iPad last year and adjusts the white balance of the display automatically, improving the readability of text by making the display warmer or cooler based on the lighting.
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Khoong and her colleagues evaluated 100 sets of actual ER patient discharge instructions written in English, and rated them on readability; quality of diagnosis explanation, follow-up instructions, medication instructions, return precautions and greeting; medical jargon content; nonmedical nonstandard English issue, such as use of abbreviations, colloquial English, proper nouns and spelling issues.
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Grammarly today operates on a freemium model, where paid tiers give users more tools beyond grammar checks and conciseness to include things like "readability" detection, alternative vocabulary and tone suggestions (not to be confused with tone policing) and plagiarism checks, with tiers that are priced at $11.66, $19.98 and $29.95 per month.
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In his request to the Supreme Court for the emergency stay in December, US Solicitor General Noel Francisco argued that the ban "has significant implications for the health and safety of both aliens and law enforcement officers at the southern border," and that any delay in implementing it "could result in serious harm to the public" (cleaned up for readability).
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So, I asked Spruill about that, specifically digging into customer churn via graduation, the pace at which customers that joined DigitalOcean as small companies left it for other players like Azure and AWS as they themselves grew (quote slightly condensed for readability): Like any self-serve, early-stage, or SMB-focused business, [the] first three to four months is critical for [customers].
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So turn away, allow your system to clear, then come back for the subtler pleasures of the printed books: admire the crisp black letters in firm margins (how did they do it without computers?); compare the whiter, more evenly textured paper to the epithelial vellum; contrast the limpid readability of the Humanist fonts (which almost make you think you can read Latin) to the opacity of the German Fraktur font, clearly kissing cousins with Klingon.
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The various steps involved include: analyzing/understanding topic context; parsing a specific set of related resources (using an indexed source database of ~500GB of "trusted articles," and if it can't find what it's looking for there resorting to the open web); extracting sentiment and "important keywords" from the source material in order to turn out "one coherent piece of text,"; and then rewriting this text, using an NLP engine, for "multi-level semantic identification and to verify its readability," as Tal puts it.
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