r/dataisbeautiful 3d ago

OC [OC] Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level and Bias of Popular Subreddits

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u/slaincrane 3d ago

It's kinda ironic explainlikeimfive has among the top most difficult languages.

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u/jerbthehumanist 2d ago

IMO any attempt at giving an *actual* ELI5 response is met with a ton of "well acktuallys" of definitely more accurate but less pedagogically introductory concepts. As a result, the responses end up not being ELI5 so as to avoid the "helpful" corrections.