GP Readers Ain't Dumb
GP Readers Ain't Dumb
December 6, 2007
You read GamePolitics, ipso facto, you are intelligent.We always knew it. Now Critics Rant validates your braininess with an online Blog Readability Test. GamePolitics scores at the post-graduate level.
GP learned about the test via Susan Arendt's report on Wired Game|Life. As Arendt reports, here's how some other popular sites fared:
Kotaku: Junior High
Destructoid: Junior High
PlayStation.blog: Junior High
GayGamer: Junior High
MTV Multiplayer: Junior High
Game|Life: High School
Slashdot: High School
Joystiq: College
Level Up: Genius
Ars Technica: Genius
You can enter any site you like to check on its readability level.
GP: It looks as if the ratings are rather sensitive to changing content. Joystiq, for example, has jumped up to "genius" today...
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Posted 11/08/09 at 09:02am
DarkSaber: http://tinyurl.com/yez7jyo
DarkSaber: http://tinyurl.com/yez7jyo
Posted 11/08/09 at 09:01am
DarkSaber: Oh for gods sake, the Gearbox pres is gobbing off about Valve again
DarkSaber: Oh for gods sake, the Gearbox pres is gobbing off about Valve again
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:53am
JDKJ: But cheer up, Austin. If the unemployment rate continues to double-digit as predicted for the next few years, your half-dozen stands a better than likely chance of returning to power.
JDKJ: But cheer up, Austin. If the unemployment rate continues to double-digit as predicted for the next few years, your half-dozen stands a better than likely chance of returning to power.
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:46am
JDKJ: @DS: If he had added the line about "or hiring illegals aliens under the table to work as nannies," it would have been a completely perfect descripition. And, yes, it's about the same difference between a six and a half-dozen.
JDKJ: @DS: If he had added the line about "or hiring illegals aliens under the table to work as nannies," it would have been a completely perfect descripition. And, yes, it's about the same difference between a six and a half-dozen.
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:31am
DarkSaber: My god, that description makes them sound almost Republican. Still what did you expect, Obama is only marginally more left than republicans.
DarkSaber: My god, that description makes them sound almost Republican. Still what did you expect, Obama is only marginally more left than republicans.
Posted 11/08/09 at 01:07am
Austin_Lewis: Health insurance, brought to you by the same kind of bureacrats who couldn't, in timely fashion, investigate the comments of any of the men Obama appointed Czars. Or their past. Or their history of not paying taxes.
Austin_Lewis: Health insurance, brought to you by the same kind of bureacrats who couldn't, in timely fashion, investigate the comments of any of the men Obama appointed Czars. Or their past. Or their history of not paying taxes.
Posted 11/08/09 at 01:06am
Austin_Lewis: Yes, and what a piece of crap it was. Arresting and fining people just because they don't make a personal choice to buy healh insurance, creating over a hundred new bureacracies, and worse.
Austin_Lewis: Yes, and what a piece of crap it was. Arresting and fining people just because they don't make a personal choice to buy healh insurance, creating over a hundred new bureacracies, and worse.
Posted 11/08/09 at 12:24am
ZippyDSMlee: JDKJ:the only trouble is a bunch of witless hacks wrote it....its going to be a train wreck....
ZippyDSMlee: JDKJ:the only trouble is a bunch of witless hacks wrote it....its going to be a train wreck....
Posted 11/07/09 at 11:33pm
JDKJ: BREAKING: In a photo-finish at the wire, House passes health care reform bill. Relatedly, in a fit of pique, Austin Lewis kicks innocent dog.
JDKJ: BREAKING: In a photo-finish at the wire, House passes health care reform bill. Relatedly, in a fit of pique, Austin Lewis kicks innocent dog.
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:27pm
ZippyDSMlee: man I got alot of junk and dup files too >< god I need orginization...and no not the knee capping media mafia kind :P
ZippyDSMlee: man I got alot of junk and dup files too >< god I need orginization...and no not the knee capping media mafia kind :P
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:26pm
ZippyDSMlee: replaced :P
ZippyDSMlee: replaced :P
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:23pm
ZippyDSMlee: beemoh:hey its like 60GB porn,400GB anime 100GB games and crap I have took from all my DVDs, I hate waiting on dvds to install stuff..... oh and 40GB of my porn was in the found.000 folder...mostly corrupted.... least I got names of wut needs to be repa
ZippyDSMlee: beemoh:hey its like 60GB porn,400GB anime 100GB games and crap I have took from all my DVDs, I hate waiting on dvds to install stuff..... oh and 40GB of my porn was in the found.000 folder...mostly corrupted.... least I got names of wut needs to be repa
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:18pm
beemoh: @Zip: ...and you'd have to spend all that time re-downloading that porn?
beemoh: @Zip: ...and you'd have to spend all that time re-downloading that porn?
Posted 11/07/09 at 03:34pm
ZippyDSMlee: ggrrrrr......vista lost one of my hard drives and I had a heart attack thinking I lost 1TB of data....
ZippyDSMlee: ggrrrrr......vista lost one of my hard drives and I had a heart attack thinking I lost 1TB of data....
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:58am
JDKJ: Which could be explained by both (a) and (b).
JDKJ: Which could be explained by both (a) and (b).
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:56am
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: You forgot C) the fact that, for some reason, every time he did something that would suggest he shouldn't be in the military, let alone an officer, higher ups ignored it or let it slide.
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: You forgot C) the fact that, for some reason, every time he did something that would suggest he shouldn't be in the military, let alone an officer, higher ups ignored it or let it slide.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:51am
JDKJ: Part of the problem is, I believe, that (a) the Army had a lot of time and money already invested in him and which they were unwilling to simply write-off and (b) an increasing need for the type of skills and services he provided.
JDKJ: Part of the problem is, I believe, that (a) the Army had a lot of time and money already invested in him and which they were unwilling to simply write-off and (b) an increasing need for the type of skills and services he provided.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:48am
JDKJ: And that even if he was begging not to get cut loose, he was apparently a real good candidate for being cut loose, anyway.
JDKJ: And that even if he was begging not to get cut loose, he was apparently a real good candidate for being cut loose, anyway.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:11am
JDKJ: @chada: And while Kennedy once noted that there's usually more than enough blame for everyone to get a slice, the possibility that the Army was unwilling to cut loose someone who was asking to get cut loose could be a factor.
JDKJ: @chada: And while Kennedy once noted that there's usually more than enough blame for everyone to get a slice, the possibility that the Army was unwilling to cut loose someone who was asking to get cut loose could be a factor.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:07am
ZippyDSMlee: *noms on his feet*..nomnomnomnom*droooll* ...wuuutttttt uuu looking at?
ZippyDSMlee: *noms on his feet*..nomnomnomnom*droooll* ...wuuutttttt uuu looking at?
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Joystiq regulars, you know what I mean.
ROFL JEANIOUS LOLZ
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071203/ap_on_sc/chimp_memory_1
At least we are still smart.
google.com - genius (there's something to be said for simplicity)
cnn.com - high school
newyorktimes.com - junior high
get_a_cash_advance_for_my_blogs_reading_level_im_not_sure_i_understand
I'll let you decide.
For the record, I just checked Kotaku.com, it's "Elementary School"
Either way, I take some comfort to this news that most people type fairly properly to get their point across here. At least I know the comments won't be trash.
Just for fun, i ran it against the front page at http://www.xinhuanet.com/ . Apparently, any little elementary school student could read that site.
Right.
Yeah, this is bullshit.
http://www.cgempire.com/forum/blog.php?u=103
That is an interesting find. Thanks for the link. I don't think anyone here was taking the thing seriously. Jystiq college level? Come on!
Forgive me for not trusting the results it offers.
Even my insane ravings contain an obscene amount of complexity and intricate theory.
www.hustler.com - high school
www.penthouse.com - college (undergrad)
who knew, people really do read penthouse for the articles!
No wonder the sun shines today.
'Course, since lots of us are posting jokes in the form of "i r stoopid" that probably doesn't help too much. =D
Considering GameTwat is no longer being run, I don't think that it would get anything over elementary.
@GryphonOsiris
Odd with JBT being a regular troll here (or at least when not banned) I am surprised we ranked so high. Probably could have done better.
Besides you can't fix stupid.
The more intelligent you need to be to read it, the less readable it is. Basically, according to this score, anyone who hasn't gone through postgrad should find that reading this blog is a chore.
It's scored based on the length and structure of sentences, the complexity of words, etc.
... that didnt last long, guess i shouldnt be surprised though considering the kind of site it was.
Also, having had my interest piqued by those of you wondering whether JT's presence had any effect, I went back to this nicely bloated entry, 200 comments including four by the man himself. Result: junior high. Still begs the question if it's actually him or just the effect he has on others, but I'll leave that one to the punters.
Nice find.
Neil Gaiman had something similar to this on his blog a while ago, and he was proud to get something around a Grade 5 reading level. (That one had individual year levels.) The reading level test used here doesn't seem to be quite as deep as that one though.
It's not a matter of content. It's the writing itself. Have you ever read a piece where there's a sentence that just goes on and on for line after line of text, using conjunctions where full stops would do nicely, adding prepositional phrases, and throwing in foreign or obscure words like "masticate" when simple ones like "eat" would do perfectly fine?
It's sentences like this:
"The hubbub began yesterday when public relations firm Hill & Knowlton released the results of a survey which indicated that 60% of U.S. consumers favored government regulation of violent and/or M-rated games."
Which is fine for a news article, but it's still no badge of pride -- like it's somehow better if some people find it hard to read.
... I think its beyond broken. FAIL.
this thing is crap.