Flesch–Kincaid readability tests

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The Flesch–Kincaid readability tests are readability tests designed to indicate how difficult it is for a reader to understand a given passage of written English. The Plain English proponent, Rudolf Flesch devised the Reading-Ease test to evaluate the readability of an English text. Later, Flesch and the psychologist J. Peter Kincaid jointly developed the Grade Level test for the U.S. Navy. The two tests of the readability of an English text are: (i) the Flesch Reading-Ease test and (ii) the Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level test. Each test of written-language use applies the same core measures (word length and sentence length) to a text, but each test gives different critical weight in evaluating the readability-measures of a text written in English. The results of the readability tests correlate approximately inversely: a text with a high-readability score on the Reading-Ease test should have a low-readability score on the Grade-Level test.

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