[JumpCrisscross]

The trader in me smells fear in this post, not confidence.

To (quickly) test my intuition I compared the language in this post with the last two [1,2] using the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (FKGL) statistic [3]. This statistic tends to decrease by 0.4 to 0.8 following trauma [4]. The original post was written with the sentence and vocabulary complexity of a 6th or 7th grader (6.9). The other two were more at the level of an 8th grader (8.4 and 8.8). Thus, we see a -1.7 change in the FKGL.

[1] http://willweinraub.com/post/44506341885/the-happiness-equat...

[2] http://willweinraub.com/post/53269730823/stop-saying-you-hav...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch-Kincaid#Flesch.E2.80.93K...

[4] http://www.researchgate.net/publication/227792923_Relationsh...

[jessaustin]

Are three data points enough when the topics are different? This is fine as a check on intuition, but maybe that's as far as it goes?

[JumpCrisscross]

That's certainly as far as it goes. This is more an intellectual toy.