Readability statistics: is anyone expected to meet a particular Flesch score?

["Geoffrey Marnell" <geoffrey -at- abelard -dot- com -dot- au>]

Fellow writers,

 

A few years ago, on some forum or other, I read that some employers of
technical writers expected their writers to always meet or better a
particular Flesch readability score. (This score is based on the number of
syllables per 100 words and the average number of words per sentence.
Microsoft Word automatically computes this score, and displays it if you
have set your Spelling & Grammar options accordingly.)  

 

Is anyone currently subject to such a demand (or has been in the recent
past)? If so, what justification was given for it?

 

Cheers

 

Geoffrey Marnell

Melbourne

Australia

 

 

 

 

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