derrr Wrote:
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> 8th Grade Wrote:
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> > derrr Wrote:
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> > > ....or your own comprehension skills are
> > stilted
> > > at the 8th grade level, 8th Grade.
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> Nope, sorry. My graduate degree from University
> Of Phoenix
> felt completely overwhelmed as I struggled to make
> sense of his speech. I actually felt less
> intelligent than most Alabamans listening to his
> speech, because I've been told I am. It was like
> I was transported back to Middle School and
> listening to school assembly speeches, which I
> liked better because they spoke slow enough for me
> to almost understand.
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> You aren't actually implying that his speech was
> anything more than at my 8th grade comprehension
> level, are you?
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> Why yes, yes I am. And I fixed it for you.
Ohh, completely dismissing the obvious fact that the speech was either written by people with only an 8th grade writing level or was intentionally dumbed down to people with an 8th grade comprehension level. Which, given your responses here, derrr, it really is not a surprise. If you are the type of person that the speech writers intended to persuade, then writing it at an 8th grade level makes complete sense. IN fact, all of Obama's SOTUs have been at the 8th grade level which is 2 levels down than all his predecessors over the past 70 years.
You don't want to take my word for it? How about the good people at the University of Minnesota who have analyzed the past 70 SOTU speeches. Sorry, derrr, you have just revealed yourself to be only at the 8th grade comprehension level. Sucks to be you.
President Obama's 2012 State of the Union address again rated at an 8th grade comprehension level, on the Flesch-Kincaid readability test — the third lowest score of any State of the Union address since 1934.
The University of Minnesota's Smart Politics conducted an analysis on the last 70 State of the Union addresses and found that President Obama's three addresses have the lowest grade average of any modern president. "Obama's average grade-level score of 8.4 is more than two grades lower than the 10.7 grade average for the other 67 addresses written by his 12 predecessors," they conclude.
"The Flesch-Kincaid test is designed to assess the readability level of written text, with a formula that translates the score to a U.S. grade level. Longer sentences and sentences utilizing words with more syllables produce higher scores. Shorter sentences and sentences incorporating more monosyllabic words yield lower scores," the University of Minnesota's Eric Ostermeier explains.
http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/01/state-of-the-union-registers-at-th-grade-reading-level-112236.html