[lbo-talk] The changing complexity of congressional speech

Wojtek S wsoko52 at gmail.com
Thu May 24 14:15:52 PDT 2012


http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2012/05/21/congressional-speech/

Congress now speaks at almost a full grade level lower than it did just seven years ago, with the most conservative members of Congress speaking on average at the lowest grade level, according to a new Sunlight Foundation analysis of the Congressional Record using Capitol Words.

Of course, what some might interpret as a dumbing down of Congress, others will see as more effective communications. And lawmakers of both parties still speak above the heads of the average American, who reads at between an 8th and 9th grade level.

[WS:] One word - Idiocracy!

-- Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."



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