The Blog Readability Test: How smart are your readers?
What level of education is required for readers to understand your blog? This would seem to be one of those questions the answer of which should be: “Well, if you have to ask…†Critics Rant has nevertheless devised The Blog Readability Test, which works by simply pasting your URL in to find out how much education is required to understand it. (This does not include information about how much educational preparation is required to plug in the URL.) Reviewers claim that the Blog Readability Test is at least as diverting and time-consuming as reading the average blog.
Why does one need to know this information? Well, one can suppose it helps to be writing to an audience you are familiar with, but one can only wonder why such knowledge wouldn’t be common beforehand, and why one couldn’t figure out the answer without such a test. Also, critics claim that the methods used to determine the test outcomes, which range from “junior high schoolâ€, to “high school†to “genius†aren’t very clear.
The test works on MySpace, Livejournal, Facebook and most other websites. In case you are curious, Google got a “Genius†rating, MySpace and Facebook ranked “High School†and Yahoo gleaned a “Junior High School†grade.
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Written by Marjorie Dorfman for Gadgetell, 2007. |
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