President Obama's 2012 State of the Union
address again rated at an 8th grade comprehension level on the
Flesch-Kincaid readability test — the third lowest score of any State of
the Union address since 1934.
The University of Minnesota's Smart Politics conducted an analysis
on the last 70 State of the Union addresses and found that President
Obama's three addresses have the lowest grade average of any modern
president. "Obama's
average grade-level score of 8.4 is more than two grades lower than the
10.7 grade average for the other 67 addresses written by his 12
predecessors," they conclude.
"The Flesch-Kincaid test is designed to assess the readability level
of written text, with a formula that translates the score to a U.S.
grade level. Longer sentences and sentences utilizing words with more
syllables produce higher scores. Shorter sentences and sentences
incorporating more monosyllabic words yield lower scores," the
University of Minnesota's Eric Ostermeier explains.
GW Bush scored at the 10th grade level.
Source: Politico, here.
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ReplyDeleteAnd Barack thought it correct to say "the Marine corpse," instead of "the Marine Corp." Three times in one speech. trump doesn't pretend to be an intellectual. Barack does. Neither man makes the grade. Trump, however, took a million dollar gift from his father and turned it into several billion. Barack has earch millions since becoming "president," and turned it into . . . . . . nothing. And he once thought there were 60 states in our nation.
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