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. 2017 Mar 2;19(3):e59. doi: 10.2196/jmir.6962

Table 2.

Average readability score and users’ ratings.

Genre Average score or rating

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.