On 6/26/06, Scott Lawton <scott_bulkmail@productarchitect.com> wrote:
While I agree that it would not be worth adding readability score if it had much impact on these and other worthy goals,
But if it doesn't, then those goals aren't reasons _for_ adding it.
There are lots and lots of cool things that could be done with the catalog.
We could start with the results of stripping the header and running wc on it. That strikes me at least as useful as this result. Also, the ten or twelve most common words in the book after stripping the ten or twelve most common words in the English language.
Even in the context of the above, the scores would provide a great starting point for being improved with manual cataloging and literacy labeling.
I don't think so. It's downright useless for manual cataloging, as it only handles that one dimension. I don't think it will help literacy labeling much, either, which is best done manually.
Don't let the perfect stand in the way of the good.
But I don't think having these numbers anywhere prominent is good. Right now our pages only have a few pieces of important information; minutia like this should go to a page linked to a page linked only from the book page, which we can fill with various stats to our hearts content. It also seems a little weird to have some proprietary reading level numbers on the system, instead of the Fog index or the Flesch-Kincaid Readability tests. It feels like an advertisement.