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It cites something called the Gunning Fog Index which measures sentence length and the complexity of words.
As it happens, in the '80s, the psychologists Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley spent years cataloging the number of words spoken to young children in dozens of families from different socioeconomic groups, and what they found was not only a disparity in the complexity of words used, but also astonishing differences in sheer number.
The basic idea in the index is that the longer sentences are and the greater is the complexity of words used in them, the higher is the difficulty to read the text.
Researchers, including those who first documented the word gap, have long argued that the quality of language -- the complexity of words and grammar -- is also a potent predictor, perhaps even more potent than quantity.
For each analysis, 6 readability scales were used--Flesch-Kincaid, Automated Readability Index, Linsear Write, New Fog Count, Simplified Automated Readability Index, and Flesch Reading Ease--to determine the readability of the text by analyzing syllable count, length of sentences, complexity of words, and other text characteristics.
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These programs calculate a score or grade level foryour writing based on numerous characteristics, including sentence length, complexity of word choice, and so on.
The Index of Phonological Complexity and the Word Complexity Measure are two measures of the phonological complexity of a word.
The Dehn function is a well-known indicator of complexity of the word problems: the smaller the Dehn function the easier the word problem.
No strict definition can encompass the complexity of a word that signifies, on one hand, a kind of literature as when one speaks of the satires of the Roman poet Horace or calls the American novelist Nathanael West's A Cool Million a satire and, on the other, a mocking spirit or tone that manifests itself in many literary genres but can also enter into almost any kind of human communication.
In addition we can assume that the time complexity of the word problem is polynomial.
In addition, again, one can assume that the time complexity of the word problem in G is polynomial.
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