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| Feb 1, 2018 at 23:22 | history | edited | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 5, 2017 at 9:13 | comment | added | Chris H | @arboviral That's a nice idea, and one I might have a play with. It looks (wikipedia) like word frequency is the closest to reading age at the level of individual words - the concept of reading age is generally applied to bodies of text (using measurements like average sentence length). A list of the top 5000 words by frequency is available so I can try that tonight. That's typical of a 5 year old. Coffee beat coverage on that measure and none of my bonus words appear | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 8:19 | comment | added | arboviral | Nice analysis. One suggestion: it could be worth adding a weighting based on reading age. This isn't meant to be a dig at Trump - analysis of his speeches confirms that he tends to prefer simple vocabulary and grammar (for a formal analysis see independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/…), which means a word like 'coverage' (or 'coffee') is far more likely than many of the other suggestions. I don't know of a dictionary file that includes reading age, but I'm sure there is one. | |
| Jun 2, 2017 at 14:28 | comment | added | Chris H | @MissMonicaE I doubt it, but in swiping you normally get a real word, even if the wrong one. I assumed typing (with one thumb or two, even a finger). My code probably inherits an assumption that a physical keyboard was used, but as it ignores anything other than lettters which are laid out the same on a touchscreen, I don't think that matters. What might matter is that some input methods use a likelihood weighting to effetcively make popular keys a little bigger than they appear (reducing the chance of hitting 'q' when you aimed for 'e' -- or used to. | |
| Jun 2, 2017 at 14:23 | comment | added | MissMonicaE | Is there a way to account for differences in typo patterns between two-thumb typing and one-thumb swiping? | |
| Jun 1, 2017 at 12:44 | comment | added | Chris H | I didn't want to go into too much detail about the script here -- this is English.se, not one of the programming-related sites. But I'm happy to explain more. It's also something I largely threw together on a train so is likely to be quite buggy | |
| Jun 1, 2017 at 12:42 | history | edited | Chris H | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 1, 2017 at 10:17 | history | answered | Chris H | CC BY-SA 3.0 |