Typically I find quiz results on blogs quite irritating, but I thought I'd cave on this occasion because the results actually pertain to the blog itself. (It's meta, no?) It looks like all that time in college paid off, because my writing is on par with someone with an undergraduate education.
Since I'm uber competitive about such matters, I did a quick survey of some of the other sites I frequent (and competing blogs). Here's how the results stacked up:
Random sample of 4 friends' blogs: 2 elementary school, 2 junior high
The New York Times: junior high (this surprised me a bit, but it's likely due to only headlines being posted on the main page)
Slate: high school
Marginal Revolution: high school
Chronicle of Higher Education: college (undergrad)
Greg Mankiw's blog: college (post grad)
The Becker-Posner blog: genius
The Economist: genius (woo, best publication ever!)
Ars Technica: genius
Conclusion: it helps to write about a specialized topic (you use more obscure terminology), longer posts tend to be more complex, and the Brits are amazing.
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i'm junior high, but i'm not really surprised; i quit writing long well-written posts on my website a long time ago. actually, i quit writing anything a long time ago; my last "paper" was a year ago for an upper-level art history course where we had to write 2 paragraphs about our experiences in a chinese restaurant. isn't that embarrassing?
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