If all those political debates have you feeling rather tired
The reason why may have been explained by the magazine Wired:
It seems that those invocations of God and Devil
never use words above a grade school level
never use words above a grade school level
And Donald Trump, who so far in the race has not been slowest,
by using a fourth grader's talk, has been ranked the lowest,
while the others it may have started as high as grade 10
but deteriorated later as they gave speeches more often.
MORAL:
Since it is apparent that reward is greater the lower you go
in politics, never, never show how much you know.
and, if you want your supporters really to hearten--
it's better to stay intellectually close to the kindergarten.
HzL
3/18/16
Donald Trump speaks at a fourth-grade reading level
Donald Trump connects with voters by using simple, commanding language that even a fourth-grader could understand, a report says — and the style has been so successful that his competitors are copying it.
“To his supporters, Trump’s style is refreshingly direct,” Wired magazine’s Chelsea Coe writes, noting that a commonly used formula for assessing reading skills shows the GOP front-runner consistently speaking at a fourth-grade level.
“From a linguistic point of view, it turns out, part of the trick is not to assume a high level of literacy.”
The same Wired analysis shows the language of Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio decreasing in reading level as the debates wore on.
Cruz’s language gradually decreased in complexity, starting out at almost 10th grade for the first two debates, in August and September, then falling to just above eighth grade by February and early this month.
Rubio began debating on an eighth-grade level, but dropped at the ninth debate, on Feb. 13, the first time he went on the attack against Trump.
By the 11th debate, on March 3, Rubio was at just above sixth-grade level.
John Kasich has hovered between a sixth-and seventh-grade level, the analysis showed.
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