Gunning fog index

Meaning

Proper Noun

  • A readability metric for English writing, estimating how many years of formal education a person needs in order to understand the text on the first reading. It is based on the average sentence length and the proportion of words of three or more syllables.

Origin

  • Developed in 1952 by Robert Gunning.

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