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: Voir DireUpdate: McCain & Obama speech accessibility scores
By jly
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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