By Heather O.

1. My blog is Junior High! Boo-yah! I think I was also rated Pg-13, too. Probably because of my frequent use of the word “crap” and “stupid”.

   Comment #1 by cherylApril 29th, 2008 at 10:51 am

2. I’m only Elementary level too. Guess I need to learn some bigger words!

   Comment #2 by Jamie JApril 29th, 2008 at 11:00 am

3. No wonder I like this blog so much.

   I’m currently teaching grade 4 and my kids told me I should go on Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? They said I’d win a million dollars because I was awing them with my super-powers of how to find the area of an irregular polygon!

   Comment #3 by meemsApril 29th, 2008 at 11:20 am

4. More than you ever wanted to know about that test (this is my more-or-less debunk of it):

   http://myimaginaryblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/debunking-the-blog-readability-test/

   Comment #4 by ZinaApril 29th, 2008 at 11:30 am

5. Oh yeah, and I also have this post, with which I proved that you can write gobbledygook and get a “Genius” rating:

   http://myimaginaryblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/gobbledygook-test/

   Comment #5 by ZinaApril 29th, 2008 at 11:34 am

6. Booya! I’m totally on a college (undergrad) level! It’s nice to know that I’m writing at the level of education I’ve earned.

   Comment #6 by StarababaApril 29th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

7. hate to burst your bubble but it really doesn’t rate your blog it just randomly chooses one. Try it again and you will see you can go from elementary to college without changing a thing. after a few clicks I got genius for my blog and so that is the rating I stuck on mine.

   Comment #7 by kristineApril 29th, 2008 at 12:27 pm

8. way to ruin the fun kristine. JK :)

   Comment #8 by mellocelloApril 29th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

9. Are you sure you didn’t change anything in between, Kris? Because my experience has been that an unchanged webpage will get the same rating repeatedly (unless new posts are added, changing the overall content.) I haven’t tested this exhaustively or scientifically, but I *have* entered the same url as many as 20 times without a change in results. I’m still fairly sure the thing counts word length and sentence length.

   Comment #9 by ZinaApril 29th, 2008 at 2:05 pm

10. I just realized I absent-mindedly shortened your name to Kris without knowing whether you use that nickname — my apologies, didn’t mean to presume.

    Comment #10 by ZinaApril 29th, 2008 at 2:38 pm

11. Well, I’m not sure about you folks, but I got an “undergrad” for a few months then it got kicked up to a “post-grad”…and yes, I am waaay smart, so it is totally true!

    Comment #11 by s'meeApril 29th, 2008 at 2:49 pm

12. I got a “Junior High Level” rating. Glad that my engineering degree is reflected in my writing skillz. I am too smart, s-m-r-t, I mean, s-m-a-r-t.

    Comment #12 by fluffychickyApril 29th, 2008 at 3:06 pm

13. Sometimes search engines can be set to automatically delete cookies and temp files and whatnot at specific times, or each time the browser gets closed. So maybe that’s why Kritine was getting different results each time and others weren’t. I have the same theory about a lot of the applications of Facebook. My DH will answer some of those quizes with the exact same answers that I do, and he will get a different score or outcome. I’m pretty sure a lot of these types of things are random. But probably not all of them.

    Too bad I don’t have a blog, so I’ll never find out what my blogging reading level is.

    Comment #13 by mellocelloApril 29th, 2008 at 7:40 pm

14. I got elementary school, which I thought was rather offensive, considering my liberal use of the word “suck.” I mean really, that’s SO junior high.

    Maybe if you swear more, your rating will go up.

    Comment #14 by SueApril 29th, 2008 at 7:50 pm

15. I got elementary school. (Which is so not right. I used intertrigenus in one of my posts. Come on! show me an elementary school kid who can read that one.) But I clicked on it couple times in the hopes that I would change just in case. It didn’t.
    I’m planning on posting tonight. I’ll have to beef up my sentence length and choice of words.

    Comment #15 by Alison WonderlandApril 29th, 2008 at 9:31 pm

16. Very yer sentent strukyur two.

    Comment #16 by JamiApril 29th, 2008 at 10:19 pm

17. Here’s a different website that tests readability and also (unlike the criticsrant page) tells its methodology:

    http://juicystudio.com/services/readability.php

    If you look at the breakdown of how the website rates readability, it’s all about length of sentences and length of words, which is in no way indicative of ability to make those long words and sentences make sense, nor does it check sentence structure nor grammar nor any of that. The juicystudio site says that my “gobbledygook” page (which is just the word “gobbledygook” repeated many times, with a few scattered periods) requires 17 years of schooling to understand it.

    I still think the criticsrant one uses a similar system, but I could be wrong and it’s just random — either way, what’s definitely true is that if you paste the entire code onto your blog as they give it to you, it puts a hidden link to a loan website on your blog, which is obviously its true raison d’etre.

    Comment #17 by ZinaApril 30th, 2008 at 7:30 am

18. This is the only time I’ll be considered a “genius”, so I’m going to cling to it and get as much mileage out of it as I can!

    Comment #18 by AbbApril 30th, 2008 at 12:10 pm

19. Last post was Abby - not Abb. Having a bad keyboard day.

    Comment #19 by AbbyApril 30th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

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