Icon designs violating any proposed principles result in low readability.
To assess the validity of our readability measure, we randomly assign undergraduate business students annual reports with "high readability" scores and annual reports with "low readability" scores.
Going on to look at success in terms of winning literary awards, the researchers found that many award-winning titles "have low readability".
We find that students largely agree with the output generated by our readability measure, as they perceive reports with high readability scores to be significantly easier to read than those with low readability scores.
In exploring the readibility of the language used in the IPCC's outputs, Barkemeyer et al. (2015) found that the SPMs stand out for "very low readability scores" (where an equivalent to a PhD level of understanding of climate science is needed), which have remained fairly constant despite the IPCC's efforts to amend its communications policy.
To test if there was a correlation suggestive of a relationship among reading grade level, readability, and treatment outcomes, we divided the behavior treatment plans into two groups; 10 that had relatively high readability levels and 10 that had relatively low readability levels.
Finally, the readability score may vary for some websites as it may be related to the use of technical terms such as fibromyalgia, since this seems to be a word with low readability.
Sites with low readability, however, could potentially mislead limited health literacy users about their breast cancer risk or discourage limited health literacy users from using a breast cancer risk assessment tool.
Common reasons for resources being rejected were: the absence of a registration process for updates, no provision of support network details, no disclosure of the funding body and poor graphic design of materials (i.e. not attractive to look at, low readability).
Moreover, it scored low for readability, again reducing the likelihood of it being used by the general public.
