Textual difficulty

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What readability tests do is give people an idea about the density of their writing. Readability tests can not tell them how easily a reader can understand the information in the text.

A person can perform readability tests himself by counting and doing some math, or by using word-processing software. There are several popular readability scales, for example:

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