<p>A list of my favorite song lyrics, rounded score:
20ish on the Fog Index (high), 51 on Flesch (average read), 16 (years to understand) on Flesch-Kincard</p>
<p>One of my freeverse poems, rounded score:
13 on Fog, 72 on ease/Flesch (easy), 10 on grade level</p>
<p>A short paper I wrote on Grant Wood’s American Gothic, rounded score:
16 on Fog, 44 on Flesch (slightly harder than average to read), 12.5 on grade level</p>
<p>Post your SAT score if justification is necessary</p>
<p>11.55, but that was a fairly informal letter to Deep Springs. If I had one of my 12-page philosophy papers on here, I’d try that. There’s also a site that tests if your writing is male or female.</p>
<p>^please link to that. it sounds interesting.</p>
<p>Posted the introductory paragraph of my research paper from first semester of junior year.</p>
<p>Fog Index: 21.84
Flesch Reading Ease: 33.79
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score: 16.54</p>
<p>Took forever to dig through Max Barry’s website (wish he posted more often), but here it is, [The</a> Gender Genie](<a href=“bookblog.net”>http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php)</p>
<p>^i actually just found it [in 3 seconds. i googled it]. it’s bogus. It said my paper on Ulysses was female [correct], but that my essay on A White Heron was male.</p>
<p>It doesn’t guess your gender, it just tells you if you’re writing in a masculine or feminine style. That said, it can’t be too accurate.</p>
<p>OH, that makes a hell of a lot more sense. Well the “feminine” paper was pretty close to being “masculine” and the essay was overwhelmingly masculine. So my writing is masculine? </p>
<p>What’s yours?</p>
<p>Usually masculine, I’ve done it a few times. Just tried again, and masculine.</p>
<p>I gave it eight samples of my work, and it got the gender right all but once. The seven samples that it got “right” were schoolwork, and the one on which it returned a female characterization was my SAT guide. Interesting.</p>
<p>I read the article. Pretty interesting [but I already knew the feminine/masculine tics thanks to Lie to Me. great show].</p>
<p>Wait, I just remembered that we’re not allowed to use personal pronouns in our writing. Meaning everyone’s style of writing at my school is “masculine”.</p>
<p>^Very true, watched that in Psychology for two weeks when all the seniors were gone.</p>
<p>I decided to do a bunch of papers from 12th grade and one or two from 11th, then average them. There are some older papers I would include, but I don’t have them with me.</p>
<p>Average[ul]
[<em>]Gunning Fog Index: 14.56
[</em>]Flesch Reading Ease Score: 56.09
[li]Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score: 11.25[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>TASPlication Essay 1<a href=“Love”>list</a>
[<em>]Gunning Fog Index: 15.28
[</em>]Flesch Reading Ease Score: 54.10
[li]Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score: 11.53[/list]</p>[/li]
<p>TASPlication Essay 2<a href=“Like%20it%20a%20lot”>list</a>
[<em>]Gunning Fog Index: 16.04
[</em>]Flesch Reading Ease Score: 52.38
[li]Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score: 13.12[/list]</p>[/li]
<p>TASPlication Essay 3<a href=“Dislike”>list</a>
[<em>]Gunning Fog Index: 14.61
[</em>]Flesch Reading Ease Score: 51.60
[li]Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score: 11.41[/list]</p>[/li]
<p>MIT Essay 1<a href=“Love%20it”>list</a>
[<em>]Gunning Fog Index: 12.18
[</em>]Flesch Reading Ease Score: 67.03
[li]Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score: 8.55[/list]</p>[/li]
<p>MIT Essay 2<a href=“Love%20it”>list</a>
[<em>]Gunning Fog Index: 13.28
[</em>]Flesch Reading Ease Score: 61.17
[li]Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score: 9.36[/list]</p>[/li]
<p>ComApp essay<a href=“Mildly%20dislike%20it”>list</a>
[<em>]Gunning Fog Index: 12.82
[</em>]Flesch Reading Ease Score: 62.04
[li]Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score: 9.54[/list]</p>[/li]
<p>UChicago essay<a href=“Love%20it.%20The%20crazy%20high%20scores%20are%20on%20account%20of%20a%20200+%20word%20sentence”>list</a>
[<em>]Gunning Fog Index: 17.15
[</em>]Flesch Reading Ease Score: 50.42
[li]Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score: 14.19[/list]</p>[/li]
<p>General Supplemental essay<a href=“Like%20it%20a%20lot,%20maybe%20love”>list</a>
[<em>]Gunning Fog Index: 12.73
[</em>]Flesch Reading Ease Score: 66.64
[li]Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score: 9.66[/list]</p>[/li]
<p>Short James Joyce essay<a href=“Like%20it”>list</a>
[<em>]Gunning Fog Index: 17.37
[</em>]Flesch Reading Ease Score: 42.14
[li]Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score: 14.47[/list]</p>[/li]
<p>Long Hamlet essay<a href=“Love%20everything%20but%20the%20conclusion”>list</a>
[<em>]Gunning Fog Index: 14.70
[</em>]Flesch Reading Ease Score: 55.64
[li]Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score: 11.54[/list]</p>[/li]
<p>Iconography Essay<a href=“Love%20it”>list</a>
[<em>]Gunning Fog Index: 14.04
[</em>]Flesch Reading Ease Score: 53.81
[*]Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score: 10.33[/list]</p>
<p>Just to be a jerk, it should be “At what grade level do you write?”</p>
<p>If I’m wrong please make fun of me</p>
<p>No you’re right. I noticed it too, but i’ve been trying to suppress my grammar-naziness.</p>
<p>Words: 810
Sentences: 34
Gunning Fog Index: 15.7
Flesch Reading Ease Score: 46.15<br>
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score: 12.74</p>
<p>Apparently, 18th grade…</p>
<p>AP World History - Chapter 1-3 Summer Study Packet Essays, Rising 10th Grader</p>
<p>Words - 3521
Sentences - 183
Gunning Fog Index - 15.86
Flesch Reading Ease Score - 42.45
Flesh-Kincaid Grade Level Score - 12.12</p>
<p>What does this mean? O_O</p>
<p>Between works, I was able to get from 5.something grade level to 23.32.</p>
<p>My most outrageous results were yeilded from a sentence I use to bother my friend with:
GFI: 21.38
FRES: -56.10
FGLS: 23.32</p>
<p>Typical research paper (two years ago)
GFI: 17.91
FRES: 33.58
FGLS: 14.41</p>
<p>As for the gender thing, four out of five of my writing samples resulted in the opposite…either it’s not reliable or my writing isn’t representative of my gender (probably the latter).</p>