It would be preferred if people could make use of places/services like Pastebin for huge amounts of data which frankly little of us want to see in our emails :) Cheers,
Secret[] Private[] Public[x] Ian Forrester Senior Backstage Producer BBC R&D North Lab, 1st Floor Office, OB Base, New Broadcasting House, Oxford Road, Manchester, M60 1SJ ________________________________ From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 22 November 2009 11:52 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC News - Googlejuice vs Usability To to avoid, or perhaps to add to, the confusion, I thought I should run the FLETCH score for the link titles that Jakob Nielsen likes so much. Here they are with the article scores. Title score Title Article score 110.15 Boy aged 15 dies of stab wounds 47.46 98.06 MSPs to get power to ban airguns 38.81 98.06 Two women die in single car crash 37.71 94.04 More rain but flood risk lowers 50.37 94.04 Jackson glove sells for $350 000 50.01 94.04 Pair attempt to rob coffee shop 46.75 94.04 End 'cheap bevvies' Welsh urges 24.1 88.4 What the Scottish papers say 38.28 79.94 Men die after stolen car crashes 53.41 79.94 Ray Mears on Canada 'Welsh hero' 48.92 79.94 Search for missing woman in river 44.7 79.94 Group attacks taxi driver and car 41.82 79.94 Army checks police HQ car 'bomb' 40.43 74.86 Can psychics help to solve crime? 32.61 71.48 MSP seeks drink-drive limit cut 36.92 71.48 Facial wounds 'higher among poor' 34.48 65.84 Shed is cordoned off after blaze 46.59 65.84 Men held over police gun attack 35.59 65.84 Hearing for US army base 'gunman' 26.12 65.84 Blasts kill five in India's Assam 23.84 54.56 Manx fans welcome Hollywood star 49.42 54.56 Two people 'missing' after fire 46.85 54.56 City swimming pool plans unveiled 45.46 54.56 Indonesia ferry sinks in squall 43.5 54.56 Chinese mine blast toll doubles 40.08 54.56 Flood bridge safety checks begin 38.68 54.56 Cern Collider makes fast progress 36.61 54.56 Student visas 'soar' after change 36.41 54.56 Beijing concerns over mine blast 33.33 54.56 New jab offers better protection 24 54.56 Town centre's taxi marshal scheme 18.46 51.74 India push targets end of polio 34.55 51.74 Power is restored to city homes 30.18 51.74 Cameron and PM sorry over photos 29.03 37.64 Minibus crash man critically ill 37.43 37.64 Canoeist killed in swollen river 36.93 37.64 Israeli air strikes target Gaza 25.15 37.64 Boy's death remains 'unexplained' 24.16 20.72 Charge in mutilation murder case 39.54 20.72 Motorist fatally injured in crash 39.5 20.72 Paper publishes secret Iraq reports 33.89 20.72 US Senate approves health debate 30.47 20.72 Polls open in Romanian election 29.84 16.49 Whisky protected against copies 25.78 3.8 Tribute to caretaker fire victim 38.59 -4.67 Blaze destroys rural warehouse 29.08 -18.77 Lawnmowers 'injure thousands' 38.76 -25.82 Cameron planning emergency budget 29.63 -46.97 Azeri president threatens Armenia 27.22 -46.97 Senior Iranian reformer jailed 15.93 "Floods body is missing policeman" scores 37.635, "Whisky body backs safe drinking" scores 54.56. This means that the first one is harder than the second, but the score on the actual text is harder than the headline. Is a high score good ("the BBC is not dumbing down") or bad ("the BBC is inaccessible to the majority")? 2009/11/21 Frank Wales <fr...@limov.com> Mo McRoberts wrote: On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 03:11:28PM +0000, Frank Wales wrote: So, am I supposed to conclude that: 43.2 Floods body is missing policeman is noticeably easier to read than: 22.6 Whisky body backs safe drinking I’d contend that in terms of sheer readability of the headlines, the floods one is far worse—in that it takes far more effort, but having successfully parsed both, I’d have a reasonable idea of what both stories relate to (enough for me to decide whether to read them or not). So would I, hence my asking for the clarification that Brian provided. Indeed, there is a completely sensible parse of the first headline that makes it about a flood-related organization that is currently suffering from the absence of a police officer. -- Frank Wales [fr...@limov.com] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002