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Update: McCain & Obama speech accessibility scores

By jly

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I have now updated the table on yesterday’s post regarding the readability (accessibility?) scores for the candidates’ speeches. The short story is that while Palin had the highest grade level score among the four speakers (McCain, Obama, Biden & Palin), her running mate had the lowest level. Good or bad? - you decide. The table after the jump…

 

Obama

McCain

Biden

Palin

Kennedy 1960

Nixon 1960
Words

4649

3965

2149

2932

2484

5348
Characters

21047

17969

9813

13455

11953

24587
Paragraphs

87

67

15

109

44

96
Sentences

226

287

127

151

124

177
S per P

2.6

4.3

9.1

1.4

2.8

1.9
W per S

20.6

13.8

16.8

19.4

20

29.8
C per W

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.7

4.5
Passive

6%

6%

2%

6%

7%

10%
F/ Reading Ease  

65.9

  

72.4

 

68.1

  

64.5

 

56.6

 

53.5
F-K/ Grade Level

 

8.7

 

6.4

 

7.8

 

9.0

 

10.2

 

12.0

Full post as published by Voir Dire on September 05, 2008 (boomark / email).

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