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Sarah Palin's Writing Analyzed

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Writing Analysts Claim Palin Writes ‘Better Than Most Educated Americans’ | The Blaze

AOL Weird News brought samples to two writing analysts who independently evaluated 24,000 pages of the former governor’s emails. They came back in agreement that Palin composed her messages at an eighth-grade level, an excellent score for a chief executive, they said.

“I’m a centrist Democrat, and would have loved to support my hunch that Ms. Palin is illiterate,” said 2tor Chief Executive Officer John Katzman.

“However, the emails say something else. Ms. Palin writes emails on her Blackberry at a grade level of 8.5.

“If she were a student and showing me her work, I‘d say ’It’s fine, clear writing,’” he said, admitting that emails he wrote scored lower than Palin’s on the widely used Flesch-Kincaid readability test.

While some would initially scoff or laugh at Palin’s grade-level assessment, past speakers and writers of note have scored comparably. Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was a 9.1 and Martin Luther King’s famed “I have a Dream” came in at 8.8. Remember, Palin’s results were based on e-mails, not riveting speeches, so the fact that they score remotely close to the aforementioned works is intriguing .

Overall, this is good news for Palin, as her writing was found to be better than some CEOs’. The New York Daily News sheds further light on her abilities:

It turns out Palin’s writing skills are still better than most educated Americans. Global Language Monitor gave Palin’s emails a score of 8.2, which actually exceeds that of most chief executives.

“She’s very concise. She gives clear orders. Her sentences and punctuations are logical,” said Paul Payack, president of Global Language Monitor. “She has much more of a disciplined mind than she’s given credit for.”
 
Writing Analysts Claim Palin Writes ‘Better Than Most Educated Americans’ | The Blaze

AOL Weird News brought samples to two writing analysts who independently evaluated 24,000 pages of the former governor’s emails. They came back in agreement that Palin composed her messages at an eighth-grade level, an excellent score for a chief executive, they said.

“I’m a centrist Democrat, and would have loved to support my hunch that Ms. Palin is illiterate,” said 2tor Chief Executive Officer John Katzman.

“However, the emails say something else. Ms. Palin writes emails on her Blackberry at a grade level of 8.5.

“If she were a student and showing me her work, I‘d say ’It’s fine, clear writing,’” he said, admitting that emails he wrote scored lower than Palin’s on the widely used Flesch-Kincaid readability test.

While some would initially scoff or laugh at Palin’s grade-level assessment, past speakers and writers of note have scored comparably. Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was a 9.1 and Martin Luther King’s famed “I have a Dream” came in at 8.8. Remember, Palin’s results were based on e-mails, not riveting speeches, so the fact that they score remotely close to the aforementioned works is intriguing .

Overall, this is good news for Palin, as her writing was found to be better than some CEOs’. The New York Daily News sheds further light on her abilities:

It turns out Palin’s writing skills are still better than most educated Americans. Global Language Monitor gave Palin’s emails a score of 8.2, which actually exceeds that of most chief executives.

“She’s very concise. She gives clear orders. Her sentences and punctuations are logical,” said Paul Payack, president of Global Language Monitor. “She has much more of a disciplined mind than she’s given credit for.”

Boy, those two just lost all respect and credibility and invites to parties.
 
I can buy it. Have you seen doctor's handwriting?
 
I would love to have that job.
 
I probably write at a third grade level.

For me, it would depend on which e-mails they analyze. Most of my intraoffice e-mails are short, abbreviated, incomplete sentences. Anything I'm sending to a client or vendor is professional, complete, and I bump up the vocab just a bit. If they took an average I might get 4th or 5th grade...:doh
 
I just checked a recent post of mine here on Word and even with all of my typos, sentence fragments, and other errors, it managed to score 9.7. This is pretty surprising to me, so I decided to test this post to see what it would score and it got a 9.6.

This indicates to me that it can’t be all that difficult to get an 8.2.
 
too bad her verbal skills are so poor.
 
I just checked a recent post of mine here on Word and even with all of my typos, sentence fragments, and other errors, it managed to score 9.7. This is pretty surprising to me, so I decided to test this post to see what it would score and it got a 9.6.

This indicates to me that it can’t be all that difficult to get an 8.2.


That means you are over qualified to be a politician.

They have standards ya know.
 
For me, it would depend on which e-mails they analyze. Most of my intraoffice e-mails are short, abbreviated, incomplete sentences. Anything I'm sending to a client or vendor is professional, complete, and I bump up the vocab just a bit. If they took an average I might get 4th or 5th grade...:doh

The post I am quoting scored a 7.1, so if you write anything close to this in your average e-mails, and bump it up for clients and vendors, I'm guessing that the average would probably be at least 8.

Of course, this is assuming that Word's reading level analysis is accurate.


P.S. This post I have just written received a score of 11.7 prior to adding a period behind the point seven, and 10.2 after I put the period down. The final score for what you see is 11.1.
 
I just checked a recent post of mine here on Word and even with all of my typos, sentence fragments, and other errors, it managed to score 9.7. This is pretty surprising to me, so I decided to test this post to see what it would score and it got a 9.6.

This indicates to me that it can’t be all that difficult to get an 8.2.

how do you check grade level like that? I want to try something.

EDIT... NEver mind.. found it in WORD. BRB
 
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Here's how they determine the grade level:

The Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level :
The Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level heuristic indicates that the average student in the grade level produced by the scale can read the text. This score takes the average sentence length in words and multiplies it by .39. It then takes the average number of syllables per word and multiples it by 11.8. It sums these scores and then subtracts 15.59 from it.
 
“However, the emails say something else. Ms. Palin writes emails on her Blackberry at a grade level of 8.5.

“If she were a student and showing me her work, I‘d say ’It’s fine, clear writing,’” he said, admitting that emails he wrote scored lower than Palin’s on the widely used Flesch-Kincaid readability test.

I just scored President Obama's inuagural address...

8.2


Palin's emails scored higher :rofl:
 
It's a good thing they analyzed her emails and not anything hand written. The crayon marks would dirty up the scanner.
 
roughdraft274 said:
It's a good thing they analyzed her emails and not anything hand written. The crayon marks would dirty up the scanner.

FAIL


Please try again.

oh come on, that was funny.

Be satisfied in the knowledge that I just proved Palin writes better emails than Obama writes speeches :rofl:
 
FAIL


Please try again.

I'm very sorry that you don't have a sense of humor.

BTW, your post telling me that I failed has a grade level of .7. Something tells me that this isn't an incredibly accurate way of measuring intelligence other than answering the question "who can piece together the longest sentences?"
 
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