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You can estimate the literacy of a forum by choosing "annotate results with reading levels", then doing a search for site:example.com. It gives a breakdown of t
by jimrandomh 16y ago
You can estimate the literacy of a forum by choosing "annotate results with reading levels", then doing a search for site:example.com. It gives a breakdown of the fraction of pages at each reading level. Far from perfect, but interesting nevertheless.
site:news.ycombinator.com: 39/55/4
site:mathworld.wolfram.com: <1/3/96
site:stackoverflow.com: 5/88/5
site:lesswrong.com: 12/67/20
- MichaelApproved 16y agoSite:reddit.com 80/19/1 All sites I've searched seem to have at least 1% advanced.
- m-photonic 16y agosite:4chan.org - 38/59/2 Huh.
- sliverstorm 16y agoIt may be time to start frequenting mathworld. If only to immerse myself.
- TorKlingberg 16y agoIf I understand it right, this does not really measure literacy, but the proportion of complicated words used. Mathworld if a site about math, and math uses a lot of special terms, so of course it has a high reading level.