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Minor Request: Adding notes on reading grade vs word-for-word accuracy #838

Open DonaldTsang opened 4 years ago

DonaldTsang commented 4 years ago

There have been evaluations of accuracy vs reliability matrix of:

It would be nice to have a recommendation screen based on ease-of-reading.

As a side note here is the list of Bible versions split into 3 parts

timbze commented 4 years ago

In my opinion, what And Bible has with "Recommended documents" already goes far enough. I don't trust these kind of readability or accuracy charts very much. Especially accuracy charts, I do not trust at all, because of my own research.

DonaldTsang commented 4 years ago

Understood, in that case, I would consider readability as the most important statistics in this document, for those that are ESL, the simpler it is to read, the better. I would recommend that the stats should be calculated based on each chapter or "story" blocks. The software that can be used to measure readability could be https://github.com/shivam5992/textstat (Python) or https://github.com/cgiffard/TextStatistics.js (JS).

Other than that, the list can be seen as a checklist as to what translations could be included in the library.

cmahte commented 4 years ago

That reliability chart from Logos really surprises me. I'd be very very curious who was involved in producing it, and how it made it onto the Logos website appearing to represent the corporate identity. It's full of red flags for me... too many to get into.

Stepping aside from perceived numeric placements on big tables like this, The original request is for the ability to group the english entries into various classes, so that one might pick a scholarly, or narrative edition depending on the task at hand. I'd think it would be a good idea to setup some form of 'additional parameters' which may even include user level entries, which can be used to filter the list.

That is, I want to read Romans from a new point of view, but straight through. I'm going to go look for a more dynamic (edited into good English) version... it would be nice to be able to see a list of works (not rated or ranked numerically, but classed into a group) which fit that hope.

On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 9:51 AM Don Tsang notifications@github.com wrote:

There have been evaluations of accuracy vs reliability matrix of:

It would be nice to have a recommendation screen based on ease-of-reading.

As a side note here is the list of Bible versions split into 3 parts

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