Comments on: Are you smarter than a high schooler?

By: brad

brad — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:09:00 +0000

I like this, Joan. My professional blog got a ‘Genius’ rating (I doubt this is a good thing, really)! I share a ‘high school’ rating for my travel blog.

By: goodshithappens

goodshithappens — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:08:00 +0000

mine says elementary school!!

gosh im so not taking this well. does this mean im not writing as well as i thought i should? dang!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:07:00 +0000

elementary school for me as well…

maybe the measure tells you more about readability? perhaps ‘college’ level means that what you’ve written is so strange and obfuscated that you need a college-level education to be able to deciper it?

or maybe they just measure the average length of the words…

By: Ulrike

Ulrike — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:33:00 +0000

mo told me he did the test with our blog and we’re elementary school level too. strange..

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:45:00 +0000

hmmm.. I’m elementary school.. definitely NOT a market I’m targeting.. I wonder why that is? maybe because my posts are quite short and i use lots of photos?

By: Yap! It's 3088...

Yap! It's 3088... — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:54:00 +0000

I did the test. Mine fell under the College (postgrad) level. I don’t believe it.I thought it should be primary school!

By: Rohan

Rohan — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:58:00 +0000

Maybe you’re just being silly (like usual? when you say you’re targeting the 14 year old market.

But, in seriousness, the question “How well can non-native English speakers read this” is a lot more important than “What reading level must a native English speaker have achieved to read this”. Especially on The Blinternet.