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Who decides or sets the difficulty level of "reading ease" (which is a sortable metadata attribute on the search page) ? Some classiications seem a bit ...noni
by knbknb 3y ago
Who decides or sets the difficulty level of "reading ease" (which is a sortable metadata attribute on the search page) ?
Some classiications seem a bit ...nonintuitive. For example, the Autobiography of John Stuart Mill is classified as "very diffcult" whereas "The Tempest" by Shakespeare is classified as "fairly easy".
I would classify it the other way around, but what do I know, I'm a nonnative speaker anyway.
- robin_reala 3y agoWe use the Flesch Reading Ease algorithm. You can find the implementation at https://github.com/standardebooks/tools/blob/master/se/formatting.py#L173 https://github.com/standardebooks/tools/blob/master/se/forma... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch%E2%80%93Kincaid_readability_tests#Flesch_reading_ease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch%E2%80%93Kincaid_readabi...