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Subject:RE: An Interesting Article From:"Rock, Megan" <Megan -dot- Rock -at- fanucrobotics -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 3 Mar 2003 14:24:50 -0500
I read the article, and frankly, from what I've observed, parents tend to install car seats incorrectly because they can't be bothered with reading the installation instructions. These are the same parents who hang their infant carriers on the back of the fold-out child seat in the grocery cart and never connect the other slot in the carrier to the cart handle. Then they wonder why the infant carrier seems to be balancing so precariously on the grocery cart!
I'm sure there are a lot of cases where people simply can't understand the car seat and infant carrier user guides, but will simplifying the language make much difference to the parents who just have no interest in reading the guides?
> > We all have (rather strong) opinions on the quality of our
> abilities and
> > skills. Regardless, they mean nothing if people can't
> understand what we
> > write:
> >
> > http://www.msnbc.com/news/879905.asp?0cv=CB10
>
> The first question I had about this article was HOW did they
> determine the
> reading? Fog Index or something like that? How do we know
> that assessment
> is accurate? Do you have a standard for grade-level writing in your
> documents? How do you determine it?
>
> Wondering...
> Anthony
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