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Old 20-Aug-2004, 07:48
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Originally Posted by Red5
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The Flesch Reading Ease scale runs from 0 (practically unreadable) to 100 (easy to read).

A score of 60 is taken to be plain English: about 20 words per sentence and 1.5 syllables per word. The Reader's Digest scores 65, Time Magazine 52, the Harvard Law Review 32. In 1991 the state of Indiana legislated a minimum Flesch Reading Ease Score of 40 for insurance policies. Today most US states require insurance documents to score between 40 and 50.

Hope that helps,
Learned something new! :)

So Flesch Reading and Flesch Kincaid are the same then?
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