Posted on 10/30/2015 10:56:17 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
CNBC has breathlessly reported that the Republican candidates who have participated in this year’s three GOP presidential debates have spoken at the ninth-grade level or below according to the Flesch-Kincaid readability test.
The cable network announced its findings on Thursday, the day it was widely criticized for bungling this week’s debate.
CNBC does not appear to have subjected its own moderators to the Flesch-Kincaid readability test.
However, The Daily Caller did.
The results show that the words (and words and words) uttered by CNBC’s small battalion of moderators averaged a fifth-grade vocabulary level — just barely.
Like CNBC, TheDC used the Flesch-Kincaid readability test for its analysis. (You may remember using the Flesch-Kincaid test to evaluate your term papers in older versions of Microsoft Word. The tool is still available in newer versions, apparently, but buried deep.)
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
This just in....
A Flesch-Kincaid analysis of Earnest Hemingway’s “The Old man And The Sea” reveals a grade-level of 4.
...Ernest Hemingway, the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning novelist whose work shaped 20th-century fiction.
Carl Quintanilla: “Mr. Cruz, could you umm, explain your poli, um what is policy? Yeah, policy on the outer east, I mean Middle east..”
Ted Cruz: “We cannot trust the media”
Becky Quick: “Why is you mad at me and us?
I want to see the results for what grade/reading level Joe Biden speaks at.
I’m going to take a wild guess and say that’s information I’ll never see.
Fifth grade level? I think that’s called grade creep
Did anyone analyze the article grading the debate participants?
“small battalion of moderators averaged a fifth-grade vocabulary level  just barely. “
So, way over the head of the average GOP voter in other words.
Well, if they don’t adopt phony accents they are just grade school.
I ain’t no way tard yet!!! mmm, mmm ,mmm.
Jane ran after the dog. Dick colored with a red crayon. Hope and change!
These days, we’ll be lucky if Jane doesn’t MARRY the dog.
I think if you took Steinbeck, Twain....all of the top hundred writers...the bulk would be writing material at the fourth to sixth grade level. Simplicity is what people desire in reading material...keeping sentences short and to the point.
“I want to see the results for what grade/reading level Joe Biden speaks at.”
Or Barack Obama without a teleprompter.
The moderators all had TERRIBLE grammar! Atrocious! I met Ted Cruz when he was here in Lake Jackson Texas a few years ago. His grammar is perfect! He doesn’t stutter or stammer and he didn’t have a teleprompter or notes!
“He doesn’t stutter or stammer and he didn’t have a teleprompter or notes!”
Remind me again who actually studied st Harvard? One attended Law School and another idiot I know of supposedly taught “Law” there, yet somehow this imbecile has to use a teleprompter, even in front a 6th grade school.
Jim Cramer skewed the analysis... from 4th grade to 5th.
Well, there are web sites that purport to rate speech by grade level. You just need to provide some text.
So, here is Joe 27 years ago setting "Frank" straight about Joe's IQ:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1j0FS0Z6ho
Do start transcribing, and tell us the resulting grade level.
The readability thing is overdone. The King James Bible scores around the seventh grade, but some of the concepts are much higher.
The translators of the King James bible paid particular attention to the sound of the words; it was meant to be read aloud. That is why more modern translations read with the dryness and dullness of an economic textbook alongside it.
“That is why more modern translations read with the dryness and dullness of an economic textbook alongside it.”
Amen to that! DH prefers NKJV which we use in our daily devotions. When it’s my turn to read I sneak in the KJV version verbiage when I can recall it from my Bible Memory Association days as a kid. Even though KJV is Old English, I think it’s easier to understand than any of the new versions.
You’re right that the King James Version of the Bible sounds much better than more recent versions when read aloud. It is not Old English, though. Google “old english example” to see some, if you’d like. I tried to post a copy of the Lord’s Prayer translated to Old English, but FR’s ongoing punctuation difficulties made it unintelligible.
HA! I was asking just last night in a related thread, if there was a transcript around so we could run the moderators’ questions through an analyzer.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3354854/posts?page=46#46
Good work DC/Eric Owens.
Dangerous thoughts within those pages lie.
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