Comments on: Amazon’s Text Stats and a Little Orwell http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/07/amazons_text_st.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:55:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Deven Desai http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/07/amazons_text_st.html/comment-page-1#comment-57692 Deven Desai Sun, 23 Jul 2006 09:40:15 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/07/amazon%e2%80%99s-text-stats-and-a-little-orwell.html#comment-57692 John, I agree and thanks for finding the Declaration number as an example of the index's oddity. I'm curious, where did you find it or did you calculate it on your own? John, I agree and thanks for finding the Declaration number as an example of the index’s oddity. I’m curious, where did you find it or did you calculate it on your own?

]]> By: John Armstrong http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/07/amazons_text_st.html/comment-page-1#comment-57691 John Armstrong Sun, 23 Jul 2006 04:14:42 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/07/amazon%e2%80%99s-text-stats-and-a-little-orwell.html#comment-57691 All these examples show is just how horribly reductive these indices are. The readability of a text simply cannot be reduced to a statistical analysis of its syntax with total disregard to its semantics. Incidentally the Declaration of Independence has a Gunning-Fog index of 15.7. Evidently one can't understand the founding precepts of our nation until one is almost through college. All these examples show is just how horribly reductive these indices are. The readability of a text simply cannot be reduced to a statistical analysis of its syntax with total disregard to its semantics.

Incidentally the Declaration of Independence has a Gunning-Fog index of 15.7. Evidently one can’t understand the founding precepts of our nation until one is almost through college.

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