[Vision2020] Test shows Ayers penned Obama's 'Dreams'

[Tom Hansen]

Exactly, Chas.

>From Wikipedia at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch-Kincaid_Readability_Test
 
"The Flesch/Flesch–Kincaid Readability Tests are readability tests 
designed to indicate comprehension difficulty when reading a passage of 
contemporary academic English. There are two tests, the Flesch Reading 
Ease, and the Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level. Although they use the same core 
measures (word length and sentence length), they have different weighting 
factors, so the results of the two tests correlate imperfectly: a text 
with a higher score on the Reading Ease test over another text may have a 
lower score on the Grade Level test."

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If somebody were interested in examining a true (a virtual "textbook" 
example - pun intended) sample of plagiarism, they need to look no further 
than . . .

"Plagiarism As It Is"
http://www.NotonthePalouse.com/plagiarism.htm

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho



> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 06:00, No Weatherman <no.weatherman at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> 
> > On Friday evening I received a welcome call from a member of Congress
> > who has found the evidence as convincing as I have and has intervened
> > to have writing samples tested through a university-based authorship
> > program.
> 
> > Two comparable nature passages — from "Dreams" and Ayers' memoir,
> > "Fugitive Day," respectively — scored very nearly identically on the
> > Flesch Reading Ease test.
> 
> The Flesch Reading Ease test is designed to measure comprehension
> difficulty, nothing more, nothing less.  Literally millions of texts
> have similar or identical scores.
> 
> Anyone with Microsoft Word can easily perform the same tests.
>


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