Study: Trump's Grammar at Fifth-Grade Level

[Ferd Berfel]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.05739

Readability is defined as the reading level of the speech from grade 1 to grade 12. It results from the use of the REAP readability analysis (vocabulary - Collins-Thompson and Callan, 2004; syntax - Heilman et al ,2006, 2007), which use the lexical contents and grammatical structure of the sentences in a document to predict the reading level. After analysis, results were grouped into the average readability of each candidate, the evolution of the candidate's speeches' readability over time and the standard deviation, or how much each candidate varied their speech from one venue to another. For comparison, one speech from four past presidents and the Gettysburg Address were also analyzed.

Ok It's NEWSMAX but...........

http://www.newsmax.com/US/donald-trump-poor-grammar/2016/03/19/id/719905/

Though by his own admission Donald Trump has "a very good brain," a new study suggests his wordplay isn't exactly Shakespearian in scope.

The study, by the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, reports that the real estate mogul's grammar is at a fifth-grade level. The rest of the 2016 candidates’ grammar was scored between sixth- and eighth-grade levels.

All candidates performed better when graded on their vocabulary skills, but the avowed socialist Bernie Sanders did best. Sanders scored highest in vocab, ranking at the 11th-grade level in the speech he made announcing his candidacy. But Trump and Clinton both scored at the eighth-grade level for vocab in the speeches announcing their candidacies. Cruz’s inaugural speech was at the ninth-grade level.

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Obviously Bernie thinks more of his supporters than the others think of theirs.

[Actor]

1. Intellect and maturity of a 13 yr old boy.

Rich ONLY because he is willing to harm others to make a profit.

[pat_k]

5. If level of empathy or "pro-social behavior" exhibited were included...

..he's rate as an infant.

[CincyDem]

2. First rule of marketing - know your target.

For the folks he's trying to enroll, speaking to them at a higher level...he might as well speak Greek.

[Jitter65]

3. No wonder Bernie is behind. The average American understands and speaks at the 5th grade level. nt

[pat_k]

4. Sounds high.

If they measured the level of empathy or "pro-social behavior" exhibited, he'd rate as an infant.