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The readability of text or in this case blogs can be assessed in numerous ways. Readability algorithms attempt to measure the grade or level required for a person to comprehend a text. Common factors used for evaluating readability include:

• Number of words in a sentence.
• Number of syllables per word.
• Usually algorithms also include a syntactic factor and semantic factor.

Using the Blog readability tool I have tested 39 finance Blogs and the results are shown below. I am not sure what particular algorithm the site uses and some results seem very surprising. The results are ranked from elementary school level to genius level, I am not sure if it is better to be more readable or more technical? The rankings are listed below:

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