The Fog Index
Posted on Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 11:17 PM
Assessing the readability of an AndroidCentral.com excerpt.
This
month's sample text comes from an October 29 AndroidCentral.com article ("A
Nearly Impossible to Remove Android Malware Has Infected 45,000 Devices"
by Muhammad Jarir Kanji). Here's the excerpt we're analyzing:
"Malwarebytes
suggests the app comes in two variants: semi-stealth and
full-stealth. In both configurations, the app does not create an
app icon or a shortcut icon in order to ensure users do not notice the
app's presence on their device. This also prevents them from easily
uninstalling the nasty piece of work from their devices; after
all, if there's no app icon on your launcher, how can you drag it to the uninstall
button? The only way an average smartphone user would even notice
its presence is thanks to the xHelper notification icon that
these ad notifications are accompanied by in the app's
semi-stealth variant. The full-stealth configuration
doesn't even have that."
--Word count: 112 words
--Average
sentence length: 22 words (11, 29, 34, 31, 7)
--Words with 3+
syllables: 9 percent (10/112 words)
--Fog Index (22+9)* .4 = 12
(12.4, no rounding)
This sample isn't too far off the mark. We
need to cut only 1 point from the Fog Index here to fall within ideal
range. There are a lot of options to achieve this. Let's see what works
best here:
"Malwarebytes suggests the app comes in two variants:
semi-stealth and full-stealth. Because neither version creates an app
icon or a shortcut icon, users don't notice the app's presence on their
devices. This also prevents them from easily removing the nasty
piece of work from their devices. After all, if there's no app icon on
your launcher, how can you drag it to the uninstall button? The
only way an average smartphone user would even notice its
presence is thanks to the xHelper notification icon that accompanies
these ad notifications in the semi-stealth app version. The
full-stealth configuration doesn't even have that."
--Word
count: 101 words
--Average sentence length: 17 words (11, 20, 15, 19,
29, 7)
--Words with 3+ syllables: 8 percent (8/101 words)
--Fog
Index (17+8)* .4 = 10 (10.0, no rounding)
Mainly we eliminated 2
longer words and made 6 sentences out of 5. But we also tried to smooth
out the syntax in places to improve the flow. These changes helped us to
cut 2 points from the original Fog score.
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