SMOG Grading - A New Readability Formula.

Abstract

in recent issue of this journal, Fry (4) described a readability formula that saves time. The panel immediately below gives method of assessing readability which is even quicker and so simple that one statistician who glanced at an earlier version of this paper thought that it was put on, fake. Although this system, SMOG Grading, is laughably simple, it is in fact more valid than previous readability formulas. The rest of this paper is devoted to substantiating that claim.