Google's reading level metrics: Religions

[Deliguy]

TIL that if you go to the advanced options on a google search you can break down the results by reading level.

I think its pretty interesting so I started breaking down some topics by reading levels from most advanced to most basic.

The most popular religions was a cool one.

Religions sorted from most advanced reading results to most basic.
hinduism
catholicism
buddhism
islamism
agnosticism
judaism
christianity
atheism
mormonism
scientology
*Not a scientific sorting. I didn't really assign certain points to any level or anything. I just looked at the numbers and put them in a basic order of observation.

I think its pretty cool. As I see it Hinduism is a mother fucker to learn about, and Scientology/Mormonism probably has the best conversion rates for people googling the religion. The most popular religions (atheism, christianity and judaism) seem to fall right into the middle of the pack. Biggest wtf: Even though agnosticism seems like the easiest of all religions to understand, it appears that it actually has some of the toughest reading.

 

[Deliguy]

oh and wickedfire vs warriorforum...

bahahaha! We got pwned. I guess our dickrolls don't require a dictionary

 

[SirKonstantine]

Hahahha wickedfire v warriorforum.

Go google "jehovah's Witness" it has a higher reading rate then Hinduism. 68% intermediate.

 

[-joe-]

@the religion thing, okcupid did a thing on that a while back:

 

[amateursurgeon]

Having a low reading level is often a sign of better writing. People who are poor writers often have overly long multi-clause sentences, poor paragraph structure and unnecessarily complex words.

 

[schockergd]

I'd love to see the regional factors and sample sizes.

 

[agentbob]

Makes me wonder if google is tracking reading levels of websites.... then they'd most likely be (or will be) tracking which reading level sites you bounceback from the least... perhaps either assigning a reading level score to your googleID or a preferred reading-level score to KWs....

 

[papajohn56]

I am the <1%

 

[Instrumentalist]

Having a low reading level is often a sign of better writing. People who are poor writers often have overly long multi-clause sentences, poor paragraph structure and unnecessarily complex words.

Fucking this. Wordiness does not equal better writing.

 

[ashutoshets]

I want more about
hinduism.

 

[fixie]

I am the <1%

me to

 

[RoughOutline]

me to

 

[amateursurgeon]

Fucking this. Wordiness does not equal better writing.

Yep - a lot of tabloid journalists (especially the columnists) are exceptionally good writers.

 

[IceToEskimos]

@the religion thing, okcupid did a thing on that a while back:

This confirms what I've always felt.

Atheists are just plain smarter than everyone else.

They've been telling me that for years, I don't know why it took me this long to believe them.

 

[jr_sci]

Having a low reading level is often a sign of better writing. People who are poor writers often have overly long multi-clause sentences, poor paragraph structure and unnecessarily complex words.

Says who? I got crappy spunned articles written and Google say's it's Basic and intermediate. The next day, I got some LSI articles written and Google again says Basic and Intermediate. Seems like Google finds it hard to identify the Reading levels between Spunned and Well written articles. :banana_sml:

 

[barman]

yeahhhh buddy

Results by reading level for Affiliate Marketing News You Can't Really Use.:

Basic23%
Intermediate73%
Advanced4%

 

[Crunk]

I blame suddenly_tits for our score.

 

[1nspire]

This is interesting. Checking the readership of keywords that convert vs ones that don't.

 

[xpathfucker]

We are a bunch of stupid fags...moving over to wafo near those intellectually advanced fuckers

Even at the intermediate level we lost, for fuck sakes...lol...

 

[SUP3RNOVA]

yup, nothing surprising