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Subject: Re: Grammar Checkers
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Date: Tue, 12-May-87 10:21:02 EDT
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Out of curiosity, would any of the automated checkers people have
been talking about have caught the "their" for "there"
error in the following:

>         ii) The current 'reading age' metrics have no validity.
>             They are bogus psychometric tools. Operationally I am
>             saying that their will be no strong correlation (say r >
>             0.9, p < 0.001) between the reading age of text and a
>             reader's performance on a comprehension test. Allow the
>             author to add a glossary and the correlation will weaken.
>             People can learn new words you know.

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scott preece
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