I think words per minutes seems like a highly problematic metric, for a variety of statistical logics reasons. Instead, I think we should try to measure multi-

I think words per minutes seems like a highly problematic metric, for a variety of statistical logics reasons. Instead, I think we should try to measure multi-word expressions (MWEs) per second, and consider special characters (including spaces!) as words. Why? Well, to start with, due to us already knowing about the Auerbach-Estoup-Yule-Zipf-Pareto-Mandelbrot-Simon-Price Law(s) only holding for multi-word expressions, not for phonemes, words, characters or syllables. Can't dig up the papers on that right now, tho. (Personally however, I suspect that MWEs per second ain't the be all, end all, of reading speed, either. It ignores concepts like Paronomasia & Polysemy, as well as even more obscure things, like Polyphonemes. I just so far lack sufficient knowing of any possibly plausible hyperparameterizations which'd generally let one compile some metric for further complexity reductions.) I'd elaborate on /how/ that (partially) answers the "why", but I lack the time to do so at the moment.