Until the 1980s, the fog index was calculated differently.
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Texts for a wide audience generally need a fog index less than 12.
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This brought down the fog index from post-graduate to high school.
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The fog index is commonly used to confirm that text can be read easily by the intended audience.
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I seem to recall it gave a Gunning fog index and a Flesch Kincaid grade and lots more.
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While the fog index is a good sign of hard-to-read text, it has limits.
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In the 1980s, this step was left out in counting the fog index " for literature ".
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Indeed, the chapter on written communication merely covers the Fog Index procedure ( ways to increase the clarity of your writing ), which Gunning long ago popularised.
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If it's any consolation, the sentence has a Gunning fog index of 16.01, which is a bit less than the text of the article as a whole ( currently 16.59 according to one online calculator ).
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The formula for calculating the SMOG grade was developed by G . Harry McLaughlin as a more accurate and more easily calculated substitute for the Gunning fog index and published in 1969 . To make calculating a text's readability as simple as possible an approximate formula was also given count the words of three or more syllables in three 10-sentence samples, estimate the count's square root ( from the nearest perfect square ), and add 3.
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