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Investigate if all uses of difficult_words are correct #73
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The Dale-Chall readability formula does not use syllables counts to identify difficult words, but only the easy_words list. Therefore, the count of easy words for Dale-Chall should be computed with: count = word_count - self.difficult_words(text, syllable_threshold=0) |
@TiredFalcon thank you for this! 🎉 I've raised #127. |
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As reported in #70 and fixed in #71, a difficult word is: not in the easy_word_set and more than one syllable.
This is not true for Gunning Fog, and might not be for other calculations that rely upon
difficult_words()
. Need to verify the other formulas that usedifficult_words
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