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Is Evil More Readable than Good?

Dennis Howlett recently ran a readability test on some blogs he follows. The Gunning Fog index is a rough measure of how many years of schooling it would take someone to understand the content. The lower the number, the more understandable the content is.

This reminded me of another test I wrote about, the Gematriculator, which calculates the Evil / Good ratio of a website.

Now for the shocking result: I took a sample of blogs I read, and ran them through both test. Blogs with a higher Evil ratio appear to be more readable! Wow! But of course the sample was too small, to really see if there is strong correlation we’d need a larger sample. So, in the name of science (?) please fill in the form below, using the results from the Readability test and the Gematriculator:

If the form does not work in your feed, please click through to my blog to complete it. When I have a large enough sample, I will publish the statistics.

Thanks for your participation!

Update (6/15): The form I created is fairly basic, but there is a lot more you can do with Zoho Creator, as this animated tour demonstrates.

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