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by Osmium 4817 days ago
Maybe because the Flesch-Kincaid reading level isn't a particularly good metric of anything other than sentence length and syllable count? Certainly not of "content" or "value" however you might define those concepts.
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Tell that to the author maybe? The author implemented the Flesch-Kincaid grade level algorithm in his plugin.

In other words, I'm not suggesting that he use Flesch-Kincaid; he already made that choice. I'm suggesting a way for him to not re-implement an algorithm that's already implemented in his language of choice.

Ah, my mistake, my apologies. I thought the author was using a different metric.