I found a cool website that gauges the reading levels of blogs. You type in the web address of a blog and *poof* - it tells you just how smart readers have to be to understand it (and by extension, how bright the blog writer must be).
So I tested the blog I write for work. (I won’t tell you what that is because it has my full name, and I like to keep a little anonymity here. A bit of mystery keeps the romance alive). Anyway, the website said that blog is written at a post-graduate college level! It even showed little symbols of a rocket and a test tube. I think that means “rocket science.” Woo hoo! I guess all that education I got is paying off. Critical mind at work here!
I don’t change brains when I write this blog, so I was feeling pretty confident when I put it to the same test. The verdict? ELEMENTARY SCHOOL level! It showed a silhouette of a 5-year-old with a book! It basically called me an idiot. It might as well have showed the kid with a dunce cap on and a finger up his nose.
I don’t know who put this test together, so I guess I should take it with a modicum of salt. My work blog is stuff that I have to write about. This blog is from my heart - purely a product of my divine afflatus. I won’t let anyone judge that.
(And maybe I’ll get a higher rating now that I’ve used words like “modicum” and “afflatus.” Ok, “afflatus” was totally my Dictionary.com Word of the Day. So what?!)
My blog is soooo junior high school. Shoot me now! I HATED junior high school!
UGH - Bopp’s is HIGH SCHOOL. Must be all that damn trivia she spews!
I always knew you both were smarter than me.
Oh, and “afflatus” didn’t work. Still have a dunce cap kid.