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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 802655" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><strong><a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2011/01/27/univ-of-minnesota-study-obamas-sotu-address-least-intelligent-since-fdr/" target="_blank">Univ. of Minnesota Study: Obama’s SOTU Address Least Intelligent Since FDR…</a></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>As it turns out, Obama’s speech was historically short — both in sentence structure and the words he used.</p><p>Last year, Smart Politics <a href="http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/smartpolitics/2010/01/professor_obama_presidents_sta.php" target="_blank">calculated</a> that Obama’s debut State of the Union Address tallied one of the lowest Flesch-Kincaid scores in modern political history, by constructing his speech with sentences that were approximately 20 percent shorter in length than the nearly 70 oral addresses given since Franklin Roosevelt.</p><p>The Flesch-Kincaid test is designed to assess the readability level of written text, with a formula that translates the score to a U.S. grade level. Longer sentences and sentences utilizing words with more syllables produce higher scores. Shorter sentences and sentences incorporating more monosyllabic words yield lower scores.</p><p><em><strong>President Obama now has the lowest average Flesch-Kincaid score for State of the Union addresses of any modern president — with his 8.5 grade level falling just below the 8.6 score recorded by George H.W. Bush during his presidency.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 802655, member: 12952"] [B][URL='http://weaselzippers.us/2011/01/27/univ-of-minnesota-study-obamas-sotu-address-least-intelligent-since-fdr/']Univ. of Minnesota Study: Obama’s SOTU Address Least Intelligent Since FDR…[/URL][/B] As it turns out, Obama’s speech was historically short — both in sentence structure and the words he used. Last year, Smart Politics [URL='http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/smartpolitics/2010/01/professor_obama_presidents_sta.php']calculated[/URL] that Obama’s debut State of the Union Address tallied one of the lowest Flesch-Kincaid scores in modern political history, by constructing his speech with sentences that were approximately 20 percent shorter in length than the nearly 70 oral addresses given since Franklin Roosevelt. The Flesch-Kincaid test is designed to assess the readability level of written text, with a formula that translates the score to a U.S. grade level. Longer sentences and sentences utilizing words with more syllables produce higher scores. Shorter sentences and sentences incorporating more monosyllabic words yield lower scores. [I][B]President Obama now has the lowest average Flesch-Kincaid score for State of the Union addresses of any modern president — with his 8.5 grade level falling just below the 8.6 score recorded by George H.W. Bush during his presidency.[/B][/I] [/QUOTE]
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