STUDY: LYRICS OF NO. 1 HIT SONGS AVERAGE A THIRD-GRADE READI

[Ed Sharpe]

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STUDY: LYRICS OF NO. 1 HIT SONGS AVERAGE A THIRD-GRADE READING LEVEL

Lyric Intelligence In Popular Music: A Ten Year Analysis
www.seatsmart.com/blog/lyric-intelligence/

"Popular music lyrics are dumb. No really, I’m not just saying that. As easy as it is to mock the quality of lyrics today, there’s some real science behind looking at how dumb they truly are."

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Well, Ed, I don't have a quarrel with the conclusion, but it seems a wasted effort to do such a study, which has some problems.  Will it have any effect of quality?  Highly doubtful.

Aside:  is there a laptop/notebook computer which has the keyboard located decently?

Richard

[Ed Sharpe]

Richard,

I ran some lyrics from some Opera Arias though a similar system(see readability-score.com/ )and they come back at under 3rd grade level. Make what you will of that.


I am not sure I understand what your second question is about.

[Ed Sharpe]

FYI:

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Readability Formula Grade

Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level 5.8
Gunning-Fog Score 9
Coleman-Liau Index 7.7
SMOG Index 6.7
Automated Readability Index 5.6

Average Grade Level 7.0

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Summertime

Readability Formula Grade
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level 3.2
Gunning-Fog Score 4.4
Coleman-Liau Index 6.6
SMOG Index 2.8
Automated Readability Index 1.7
Average Grade Level 3.7

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"Liebestod" Richard Wagner.

Readability Formula Grade
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level 2.4
Gunning-Fog Score 3.6
Coleman-Liau Index 9.2
SMOG Index 3
Automated Readability Index 1.9
Average Grade Level 4.0

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Dido's Lament

Readability Formula Grade
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level 2.3
Gunning-Fog Score 5
Coleman-Liau Index 7
SMOG Index 4.4
Automated Readability Index 0.6
Average Grade Level 3.9

[Deleted]

Well, Ed, all the notepad computers that I looked at have a touch pad between the user and the keyboard, making the keyboard difficult to use, at least in this house! The keyboard is too close to the monitor. Hard to avoid touching the touch pad and causing some unwanted effects. If I could find a way to disable the touch pad, I would do so in a flash. I would also like to disable the touch sensitive screen.

Richard

added:  Disabling the touch screen was easy.  but I find the manufacturer of my machine provides a fix which does not apply to my computer!

[Deleted]

Problem solved. Sometimes you can look at the solution and not see it! To disable the click pad/touch pad, you must select mouse from control panel, not the click pad! I suppose there is some logic involved, but it eludes me.

Richard

[Joseph]

May 21, 2015 17:34:50 GMT Ed Sharpe said:

FYI


STUDY: LYRICS OF NO. 1 HIT SONGS AVERAGE A THIRD-GRADE READING LEVEL

Lyric Intelligence In Popular Music: A Ten Year Analysis
www.seatsmart.com/blog/lyric-intelligence/

"Popular music lyrics are dumb. No really, I’m not just saying that. As easy as it is to mock the quality of lyrics today, there’s some real science behind looking at how dumb they truly are."


Going back quite a few[!] years I seem to recall an English teacher providing that newspapers were generally written at the 3rd grade level (the NY Times cited as an exception, at the time written at the 6th grade level) presumably to allow a wider comprehension amongst the readers.  I wonder if much has changed?  
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