Table 2.
Average readability score and users’ ratings.
| Genre | Average score or rating | |||
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FKGLa | SMOGb | GFIc | AMTd user rating |
| Wiki | 14.75 | 11.07 | 12.33 | 4.41 |
| Med | 9.87 | 8.74 | 8.16 | 5.35 |
| Differencee (%) | −33.09 | −21.03 | −33.76 | 21.31 |
| P value | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | .002 |
aFKGL: Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level.
bSMOG: Simple Measure of Gobbledygook.
cGFI: Gunning-Fog Index.
dAMT: Amazon Mechanical Turk.
eAll differences in scores between the wiki and med genres were statistically significant at level P=.01 (Mann-Whitney U test). The second to last row shows that the percentage med score was higher than the percentage wiki score.