Error in Text Analysis?
Posted: 2019-08-04 04:43:30
I copied an academic paragraph into Nisus, and got its Flesch numbers and Fog Index, etc.
I rewrote the paragraph, using all the devices that used to work -- shorter sentences, shorter words, fewer adverbs, etc.
The score was slightly WORSE.
I checked with other analyzers on the web, and they agreed that the repaired paragraph was more readable.
This strongly suggests that an arithmetic error has crept into Nisus Pro 3.0.2's Text Analysis algorithms.
I rewrote the paragraph, using all the devices that used to work -- shorter sentences, shorter words, fewer adverbs, etc.
The score was slightly WORSE.
I checked with other analyzers on the web, and they agreed that the repaired paragraph was more readable.
This strongly suggests that an arithmetic error has crept into Nisus Pro 3.0.2's Text Analysis algorithms.