Flesch Kincaid Index

what are the lower and upper limits of the Flech Kincaid Index

passive
readibility ease

[Red5]

Welcome!

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,

[Tdol]

The passive index simply gives the percentage of sentences containing the passive, so it is 0-100. :o

Most novels have less than 5% for passive index. Most technical papers, on the other hand, has 30% or up.

[Ibeke]

Originally Posted by Red5

Welcome!

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?

[Guio]

Is there a software (for Windows) that computes readibility statistics for a pdf document? I need to analyze text in a large number of scientific papers (written in English). All papers come in pdf, but most of the applications that I have found so far only work with plain txt or html files.