You’re With Us, Sixth-Graders!

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According to SacTown Royalty, this odd little tool, and something called the “Gunning-Fog Index”, The Basketball Jones is written so simple, even sixth-graders can follow along. At least, I think that’s what it says. I can’t understand this shit for the life of me:

The [Readability of a Website] program checks content on a given website and uses number of words per sentence, syllables per word, and number of high-syllable words to quantify the readability of said website. Using the “Gunning-Fog Index,” the data can be put on a scale to describe at what reading level, expressed in school grades, a reader would have to be at to understand the content.

Wow. Anybody? Kids? Yeah, I’m not gonna lie, I threw in the towel at like, “readability”. Fortunately though, SacTown Royalty breaks it down:

Using lowpost.net’s list of 30 top basketball blogs, I also gauged the readability of basketblogdom. Anyone could’ve guessed that Free Darko would have the highest threshold, and they do – FD’s Gunning-Fog score is 10.28. (Hell, I’m a college graduate and I don’t understand some of what Shoals and the Recluse write.)

The lowest Gunning-Fog score was surprising, though. (And note that low Gunning-Fog scores aren’t a bad thing – the tool’s programmer makes sure to note that conciseness and clearness is valued. Though, as can be attested by the wholesale scorn of cavepeople and monkeys in our society, simpletondom is not highly looked upon.) Anyways, our Canadian friends at The Basketball Jones earned the lowest score at a remarkable 5.39. Yes, sixth-graders are allowed at TBJ.

5.39, eh? Un-fuckin-beleevible… STAY IN SCHOOL, KIDS!

No Sixth-Graders Allowed [SacTown Royalty]

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By J.E. Skeets at 12:08 am on 05.26.2006 — Tags: Announcements, Misc.

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8 Responses to “You’re With Us, Sixth-Graders!”

  1. Pstar at 12:46 am on 05.26.2006

    Yeah, but that’s in America Jr. You’re probably at like, a 7.5 with the exchange rate, right?

  2. Pstar at 12:54 am on 05.26.2006

    Wait a sec, that thing says the bible and tv guide are both at 6? How the hell does that work?

  3. Frank at 1:04 am on 05.26.2006

    Start using more cromulent words!

  4. Settons at 8:12 am on 05.26.2006

    Most newspapers have a reading level of grade 3…just so you know skeets, I still think you’re brilliant!

  5. benjammin' at 8:22 am on 05.26.2006

    I always knew you wrote at a grade 6 level.

  6. Tas Melas at 10:35 am on 05.26.2006

    Di da do dum di.

    That’s how I speak/write. Good thing Skeets takes most of the writing responsibilities. I’d definitely pull us down with the preschoolers.

  7. Lance Uppercut at 2:44 pm on 05.26.2006

    8.15 bitch! High school awaits.

  8. J.E. Skeets at 2:46 pm on 05.26.2006

    Man, I miss high school. I used to be so good at ‘Hearts’.

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