Posted on 10/30/2015 6:46:56 PM PDT by Jarhead9297
"In debates rife with confrontation and verbal barbs, there was one thing that wasn't a big surprise: Nobody was speaking above a high school level."
"And at least one front-runner was in elementary school territory. That's according to a Big Crunch analysis of the first three Republican debates, looking at the candidates' speech patterns — and matching to them an appropriate school-grade level. We based our analysis on the well-known Flesch-Kincaid readability test. (Some readers might remember playing with this feature on Microsoft Word when writing up school reports — to see how highbrow their writing was.)"
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It sure was not required in the choosing of moderators.
If so, then the Republican candidates were trying to attract Demoncrats supporters?
All that from Clown News Broadcasting Company!
Says a network who’s broadcast is design for a fourth grade education.
Them Republicans don’t talk good like me and you. Their vocabulistics is all real limited.
And it takes two of these idiots to put this slop together.
I can’t believe the following, “there was one thing that wasn’t a big surprise” this is supposed to be a news outlet!? Beyond the debate if that comment precisely right there does not show the disdain the media has for conservatives I don’t know what does.
The reversal of good with evil was a requirement for the lame moderators.
Democrats have to speak at a 4th grade level for their voters to understand them.
When speaking to a general audience a mid-7th grade to lower 9th grade lexel is just about right if you want to capture the attention of most of the audience.
Of course they are going to double down. And, their counterparts in competing media will also rise to defend CNBC. Why? Because their million dollar salaries depend upon that. Also, those in competing media outlets might, at some point, be needing a job at CNBC. How would it look if they didn’t defend CNBC?
According to the Dilbert Blog, using that 4th grade speaking level is the mark of a Master Wizard in persuasion technique. Maybe it goes to the lizard part of the brain, I dunno....
What was the grade level of the RAT debate?
The Daily Caller applied the same test to the moderators speech from the debate and they scored at exactly the same level as Trump.
I have to agree. The moderators did sound quite juvenile.
Juvenile is far too kind. Let’er rip Berdie!
If a successful neurosurgeon tests out at the ninth grade level, your test needs tweaking. Spoken language is always simpler than written, though. And complex language can easily go over the heads of publicly educated voters.
DUmb asses. Effectively communicating is much more important than spewing multi-syllable words to impress the voters.
I agree and if a debate utilized language and speaking style at a dot orate level 90% of your audience would tune out. I don’t think the liberal media “gets it.” The people want plainly spoken people with a simple solution behind simple messages.
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