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Thanks for the reply. Clearly I am not the intended audience for this piece of essay. Just out of curiosity, can you gauge how many percent of the US populatio

• jacobolus 9y ago
  The New Yorker has a circulation of about 1 million, which is about half a percent of US adults. The potential audience they’re aiming at is maybe more like 5–10% of the population. The archetypal New Yorker subscriber is a professional with a postgraduate degree who reads high-brow fiction as a hobby.
• brianwawok 9y ago
  You can push a button in word and it will tell you the grade level of reading to understand a piece. I think there are a few differnent algos for this. Different news orgs tend to have different grade levels of writing. You tend to write towards your target demiograph. The new yorker is aimed at college educated white peopoe I suspect, so would be at a higher level than a paper aimed to the masses.