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

[No Weatherman]

Mr. Hansen:

The difference between ghostwriting and plagiarizing is comparable to
the difference between capitalism and communism.

I would explain this further but since you demonstrate a working
knowledge of none of the above, I am at a complete loss.



On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> 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."
>
> -----------------
>
> 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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