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You can thank Annie Wagner for that genius tag. She will be missed.
ha ha SoundPolitics is jr. high level.
I did that one a few months ago, didn't post it because I also read the result image has some embedded code that sets off false "spam site" readings for web ranking and search engine ranks. (mine was genius too, which is actually bad as I need to make mine more readable for everyone)
A better one is here, it gives a bit more detailed results if you're interested.
http://juicystudio.com/services/readability.php
Ha! My company's website (the copy of which is dictated by our grammatically retarded CEO) received an "Elementary" tag.
I'm not surprised.
Wait. Annie Wagner has died?
No way am I going to believe that Bradley and Amy Kate and now Annie all died of some unnamed cause within weeks of each other. What killed them?!?
Mensa's is "College - Post Grad"
-heh!
Just to fill in the pit bull quotient of the day.
If you give a shit about this, you're level is mildly retarded.
I wonder what Gerard Vs. Bear ranks in at.
Oh... wait. Should have known that this would have been jumped on the second it came out.
Oh wait... should have known any pit bull story would have been jumped on immediately.
Gawker's level is Junior High? My first handle was executed from Gawker. I was also kicked out of my first Junior High. Sounds about right.
The blog that has nothing but pictures of my kid on it is "Genius." I call bullshit.
"These Douchebags" (enemies of slog) comes in at genius. Depressing.
Not that we give these things ALL that much credence, but just for fun I punched in the URL to Moby Dick on Project Gutenberg
The verdict? Junior High School.
The Drudge Report is also Elementary School level. Haha.
@15, pretty smart junior high kids!
Running Slog through the more detailed readability rating site gives this:
Gunning Fog Index 8.16 (Reader's Digest/TV Guide reading level)
Flesch Reading Ease 57.05 (60-70 is recommended)
Flesch-Kincaid Grade 5.76 (A fifth grader should be able to read it)
The NORML blog comes in at "genius" level. There's why we still have so many misconceptions about the herb - the main advocacy blog is too difficult for most people to understand.
Hey, girlsareprettyforever.blogspot.com/, which is - if you share my tastes (and you probably don't) one of the smartest blogs of all time. ALL TIME I TELL YOU!
It was judged Elementary Level. Stupid bullshit robot, doesn't like the funny.
This site is so broken, Gerard Vs. Bear comes in as genius.
Readability is GOOD, not bad.
(at least I hope so, because my blog comes in at "elementary school.")
@20, I also love girlsarepretty.com, so I tested it with a few other comedy sites, all of which have pretty high reading levels, but plenty of cusses.
They all came in at "Elementary School" or "Junior High."
Shitfuckcocktit.
http://makezine.com/ The geeky site of wonderful hacks for Make Magazine. (make your own homemade spot welder, MIDI controlled wall harp, a breathalyser in a microphone enclosure, etc.) got an "elementary school" level.
McSweeney's got an elementary level rating.
Your ugly and smelly cousins on the Forums got a genius rating for our Politics and Now I am Drunk Sections. Religion is Junior High, but what do you expect.
Well don't start sucking each others dicks just yet...
The hun got a Genius rating too.
Looking at nipples and dicks amongst other forms of hardcore pornography is the same as the strangers film section.
Yeah, you guys rule.
I think I would prefer reading a blog that read at elementary level, but explained genius-level concepts.
My blog content is mirrored at blogspot and myspace. I received 3 different ratings for the exact same content.
1. jesus21.com - high school
2. adultchristianity.blogspot.com - college (post grad)
3. myspace - elementary school
go figure.
I hate to break it to you guys, but reading level doesn't reveal how smart the authors are, it reveals how complex the sentences are. So if a website's reading level is post-grad, it means that the authors can't construct a clear thought, not that the readers are super-smart.
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