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2013-02-13 00:37:51

#9051

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,824|6555|eXtreme to the maX

Jay wrote:
Pair of pretty neat infographics:

The average reading level of the speeches given to Congress for the State of the Union over time.

Whole thing here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interac … ding-level

Its all been dumbed down for the average TV watching pleb, not the sort of people who would have attended or bothered to read the earlier ones.

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2013-02-13 01:25:17)

Fuck Israel

2013-02-13 01:13:10

#9052

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,073|7221|PNW

AussieReaper wrote:
unnamednewbie13 wrote:
The overuse of "God bless" in politics has always bugged me, even when I was a devout Christian and not leaning more towards agnosticism. If God does exist, I'm sure it would prefer if its name wasn't invoked unless people meant it.
Have you looked at what's written on your currency?

lol

Yes and that annoyed me as much then as it does now for various reasons. Putting God's name on money. LOL.

2013-02-13 05:48:53

#9053

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5807|London, England

Dilbert_X wrote:
Jay wrote:
Pair of pretty neat infographics:

The average reading level of the speeches given to Congress for the State of the Union over time.

Whole thing here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interac … ding-level
Its all been dumbed down for the average TV watching pleb, not the sort of people who would have attended or bothered to read the earlier ones.

Not sure what the ratings were last night, but only 12% of the country watched last years speech, even though it takes over half the tv channels.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2013-02-13 07:53:54

#9054

-Whiteroom-: Pineapplewhat; +572|7108|BC, Canada

Why watch that when honey boo boo is on?

2013-02-13 07:58:28

#9055

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5807|London, England

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/485386_492063134190265_1693867505_n.jpg

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2013-02-13 07:59:03

#9056

RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,746|7186|Cinncinatti

i used to watch that show

2013-02-13 08:03:36

#9057

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5807|London, England

not the mama!!!

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2013-02-13 11:35:41

#9058

RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,746|7186|Cinncinatti

http://killology.com/sheep_dog.htm

2013-02-13 11:50:48

#9059

Uzique The Lesser: Banned; +382|4703

well, that's the most creative use of an emerson quote that i've come across in a few years of transcendentalist scholarship

2013-02-13 13:43:03

#9060

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,993|7081|949

Jay wrote:
Dilbert_X wrote:
Jay wrote:
Pair of pretty neat infographics:

The average reading level of the speeches given to Congress for the State of the Union over time.

Whole thing here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interac … ding-level
Its all been dumbed down for the average TV watching pleb, not the sort of people who would have attended or bothered to read the earlier ones.
Not sure what the ratings were last night, but only 12% of the country watched last years speech, even though it takes over half the tv channels.

Where's the comparison chart for the average reading level of the audience? Where are the milestones marked for radio broadcast and tv broadcast? How do the people doing the chart know the average reading level for people in 1800? Or is that based on todays reading levels? If the latter, I'd bet there are a lot of everyday words used in 1800 that are considered 'higher' vocab to commoners today. In other words, nonsense infograph

2013-02-13 13:53:19

#9061

Uzique The Lesser: Banned; +382|4703

it's probably something fairly asinine, like the number of polysyllabic or technical terms used.

what an infographic like that cannot account for, is how prolix and high-register speech of days yore has been substituted today for simple, declarative rhetoric, twinned with lots of PR/media buzzwords and sloganeering. it's just a different political language - a modern idiom. one is not necessarily more sophisticated or hard to grasp than the other. you can't measure the intellectual content of someone's language/message/meaning through a heuristics of syllables, or adverbs.

Last edited by Uzique The Lesser (2013-02-13 13:53:40)

2013-02-13 13:54:52

#9062

Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|6035

The link says the numbers were calculated using
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch%E2% … ility_test

2013-02-13 13:59:58

#9063

Uzique The Lesser: Banned; +382|4703

yup. words and syllables. useful stats, but not exactly conclusive statements as to an audience's intelligence. you can't extrapolate those sort of results to make some grand general law about 'the american public' or 'the standard of political discourse'. words and language change in many ways. short and simple sentences aren't always confined to simpletons and dumbies. it says nothing of the content.

2013-02-13 18:48:53

#9064

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5807|London, England

Well, this sort of makes it make more sense now doesn't it?

https://s3.amazonaws.com/infographics/Illiterate-America-800.png

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2013-02-13 19:27:40

#9065

Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|6035

Less than 1% of Americans over a certain age are illiterate. The graph was made by someone hawking online courses.

2013-02-13 19:30:55

#9066

Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|6035

CIA factbook gives us a 99.99% literacy rate for people over 15

2013-02-13 19:43:44

#9067

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5807|London, England

Macbeth wrote:
CIA factbook gives us a 99.99% literacy rate for people over 15

What counts as being literate then? Reciting the abc's?

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2013-02-13 19:43:47

#9068

Spearhead: Gulf coast redneck hippy; +731|7139|Tampa Bay Florida

Correlation vs. Causation

2013-02-13 20:24:22

#9069

Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|6035

Well if you are looking for something to feel better than others about I am not going to stop you

2013-02-13 20:47:26

#9070

AussieReaper: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°); +5,761|6602|what

Macbeth wrote:
Well if you are looking for something to feel better than others about I am not going to stop you

I'm sure he thinks all liberals are lazy, so he's got that to fall back on.

2013-02-13 20:53:07

#9071

Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|6035

Liberals can't read

2013-02-14 00:28:13

#9072

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,824|6555|eXtreme to the maX

Comparing metaphors in a poem - a critical skill why?

Fuck Israel

2013-02-14 00:28:49

#9073

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,824|6555|eXtreme to the maX

AussieReaper wrote:
Macbeth wrote:
Well if you are looking for something to feel better than others about I am not going to stop you
I'm sure he thinks all liberals are lazy, so he's got that to fall back on.

I hope he falls back on something..............................................something sharp.

Fuck Israel

2013-02-14 02:34:12

#9074

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,073|7221|PNW

Shitty infographic.

2013-02-14 03:15:36

#9075

M.O.A.B: 'Light 'em up!'; +1,220|6672|Escea

Seems Oscar Pistorius has been arrested for shooting his girlfriend.

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