True, this article only has a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of 8.0. You would think a college educated grammar nazi could bang out a 12.0 easily. Although, i hear in journalism classes they say its proper to write a 7.0 because thats what the general public reads at. So maybe he is being edumucated.
In college, I found that the lower the grade level that a scoring program I found on an HP3000 (this was 27 years ago) in the Mathematics department scored my papers, the higher the grade I recieved.
Our papers were graded by TAs who did not speak English well. The less I strained their brains, the more I was rewarded.