Hat tip to Gullibity blog<\/a> for a link to a site that tests the reading age<\/a> that your blog is aimed at.<\/p>\n

So…when I did this blog readability test I was surprised at it’s assessment of the reading level needed to make sense of what I was writing. The widget says you are at Genius level if you read Gullibility – WOW!. Just a note, I would have posted the icon but it comes with an un-announced advertising link. The other thing that comes to mind is whether that means the Gullibility readership are Genii or Geniuses…but what the heck, being a Genius you’ll know anyway! (quoted from Gullibility blog)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, I got slightly on the self-critical defensive on reading this. I want to write clearly. I think I change my wordy blogdrivel into plain English, on the second pass, but I have to admit that a fair amount of the blog evidence contradicts the success of this venture.<\/p>\n

But, I can take it. I’ll run the blog through the reading age thing and learn from it.<\/p>\n

Junior High level?<\/p>\n

Well that sounds good in terms of the readability objective, but this puts me slightly on a new para about maybe having very banal content.<\/p>\n

(Not a hundred per cent sure what this means really, which is a bit of an obstacle. How old are students in Junior High? In any case, hang your dumb heads in shame, readers.)<\/p>\n

So, how is it that Gullibility blog can only be read by geniuses? I scan this very interesting site, looking for posts from Schroedinger or, at least, casually inserted calculus problems that are way beyond my puny mortal understanding. No, can’t see any.<\/p>\n

Oh, wait. I see a thoughtful post on the Popper\/Kuhn debate. Mention of “paradigms”. A link to a Princeton page of sociology fun<\/a>? (Admittedly, you really do need to know a fair bit about academic sociology to find any of the Princeton jokes funny or even to understand the references. But I like the concept of sociological humour, in principle.)<\/p>\n

w00t \\0\/. It’s official. It comes from the Internet, which is not allowed to lie.<\/p>\n

Sociology=genius<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I can’t argue with that. In your faces, other scientists.<\/p>\n

(Bah. This may make me seem a mite Gullible….)<\/p>\n

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