The Blog Readability Test - bwahahahaaahaa!

Oh this is good - saw someone reference the Blog Readability Test (what level of education is required to understand your blog?) and of course plugged mine in to learn:


Then just for fun I grabbed the first blogger I thought of who actually writes, and this is what Meredith at Information Wants to be Free gets:


That's absolutely hilarious.  I suppose it could be a compliment that she writes so well more people can understand...  Make up your own mind if you want to trust this tool :-)

Comments

[Pam]

given that libraryassessment.info comes back as 'genius' level...... : )

[Meredith]

LOL!

I'd agree that I probably write at a high school level -- my blog writing is very colloquial and is a far cry from the way I would write for an article, book or column. In my blog, I write how I speak, and I like having a space where I can have passive sentences, dangling prepositions and completely incorrect punctuation; for me the blog is the space where I can relax. :)

[Meredith]

What a funny coincidence! The Annoyed Librarian's blog is also at a high school level.

[walt crawford]

Geez, Paul, I took the test...and Walt at Random scores at Junior High. I'm not sure whether that's a good thing or a bad thing. Maybe both?

[Katerina]

Well, I think this test is just fun. It has nothing to do with the real blog level. I have tested my own blog - at first it got genious level. But all my friends' blogs got only elementary. Some time later I retested mine - and recieved college reading level.

[Paul R. Pival]

Katerina's got it nailed, I'm sure. When you grab the logo to paste in your blog there's actually a line of HTML pointing to a loan website that wants to come along. I just didn't include that, but I suspect a fair number of folks will just paste it all in, and bingo, there's another link to the loan website. Pretty smart idea, actually - kinda surprised they didn't do a better job of hiding that link somehow.

[Amit Agarwal]

You got it right Paul. That's just another clever (and bad) idea to promote some loans website.

[Kate Stirk]

Junior High level for View From the Library http://northmetrotechlibraryatacworth.blogspot.com/
I noted- there is no excuse to not understand this blog. :)

[garrett]

i caught the embedded code for the loan site before linking it on my blog also. i tried to find a more reputable readability test and found one at
http://juicystudio.com/services/readability.php
oddly enough, when i ran my personal and our library blog through both tests, the results came out about the same: my personal was "genius" for the first and post-graduate for the second...library's blog was "junior high" for the first and between 6th-9th grade on the second. maybe there is some loose science at work...