I made this for politics, but my favorite finding it that r/explainlikeimfive had an average reading level of 9.1 so it should really be r/explainlikeimfourteen
It’s kinda ironic explainlikeimfive has among the top most difficult languages.
Tankiejerk is far-left but anti-Stalin yet listed as right here. This makes intellectualdarkweb the highest scoring right sub.
I checked out TankieJerk to see how conservative they are, and I’m going to be honest they seem like a pretty left leaning sub lol
I know you said your methods aren’t perfect, but from what I remember, isn’t a higher FK score meant to say it’s easier to read? The FK scale goes to 100, where the highest scores close to 100 means a 5th grader should be able to read and understand, while a score under 10 is best understood by professionals/university graduates. My company (medical field) has a tool to look at documents we send and we want to make sure our docs have a score of 45 or higher to make sure we have a standard of readability in documents sent to patients.
From what I am seeing here, subs like r/aww are really hard to understand while the highest ones are still really hard to read but not by much more.
Men’s Lib is a left leaning sub that seeks to solve issues for men and is opposed to the manosphere and is open to feminism. I never encounter right wing points there
r/pics Apolitical? That sub was sold to dems years ago
ExplainLikeImFive’s reading level being at 9.1 is a clear failure if the sub…
r/NeutralPolitics
Look inside
Left leaning
How does your use of the FK grade level formula account for subs that will inherently involve some more complex, multi-syllable words repeatedly or multi-syllable words that are actually proper nouns or names? I’m guessing that’s how AskHistorians, Philosophy, and even EILI5 are high up in their FK grade level, as people will use a long multi-syllable word or name repeatedly while discussing it in layperson terms.
As a researcher using FK often, there’s some inherent caution in its use when topics will use what FK interprets as complex from syllable count but are actually common words even young school children can recognize, such as “Computer” or “Understand”, or proper names they’ll know, like “Washington”.
r/wallstreetbet proving once again they’re regarded !
Your analysis of the politics leanings of the subs is fundamentally flawed.
Reality does not reflect your data.
Enlightened centrists strike again
I unsubbed a long time ago from ExplainLikeImFive because nobody could read even its damn name
I’m sorry, but your methodology doesn’t make any sense, you aren’t actually analyzing anything of value because it’s contextually irrelevant and you’ve chosen to remove comments that you don’t feel match your model for some reason. For all you know, you’re just analyzing population data of super users in a sub, and first comment bias.
Anarchism being red is absolutely insane!
If conservatives could read this chart they’d be very upset. >:(
r/anarchism and r/tankiejerk being listed as “right” is enough for me to throw this whole thing in the trash.
I’m sorry but whatever methodology you used to determine right and left leaning is so godawful that it’s actually failing completely at its job. It’s not just a stretch, it is explicitly labeling things the opposite of what they are in multiple cases. You really need to work on it because right now, this is actively wrong and misinforming the reader.
Communism being up there with philosophy says a lot about the people in our society who are really into communism
Republican and Democrat being dead even.
Shit maybe the centrists were right
Amazing, r/philosophy and r/communism are so similar.
Hey guys I think r/communism might have a left wing bias
TwoXChromosomes being left-wing???
How is it possible for r/politics to be in the bottom half of bias?
I love how out of the loop has a 9.5 cause the people in the loop are usually well-educated.
MensLib right-leaning?
Would be interested to know how they arrived at that conclusion given that it’s literally an intersectional feminist sub.
Wish I could see the reading level for r/conspiracy cause… oh boy.
So the centrists are enlightened!
Uh, I thought menslib was like “how can we not be pieces of shit and be better humans to each other and to women” that’s pretty not right.
Hold up? r/MensLib is RIGHT leaning? By… what metric? They bend over backwards and flagellate themselves repeatedly over how feminist they are. Tf is this?
Why the heck do you have red for right and blue for left must be an American I guess the rest of the world were usually have red for left and blue for right
r/ModeratePolitics is drastically overrated in these results
also wtf is r/Anarchism doing in the “right” category?
![[OC] Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level and Bias of Popular Subreddits](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/0m3yf20oqnse1-1240x1024.png)
34 comments
I made this for politics, but my favorite finding it that r/explainlikeimfive had an average reading level of 9.1 so it should really be r/explainlikeimfourteen
It’s kinda ironic explainlikeimfive has among the top most difficult languages.
Tankiejerk is far-left but anti-Stalin yet listed as right here. This makes intellectualdarkweb the highest scoring right sub.
I checked out TankieJerk to see how conservative they are, and I’m going to be honest they seem like a pretty left leaning sub lol
I know you said your methods aren’t perfect, but from what I remember, isn’t a higher FK score meant to say it’s easier to read? The FK scale goes to 100, where the highest scores close to 100 means a 5th grader should be able to read and understand, while a score under 10 is best understood by professionals/university graduates. My company (medical field) has a tool to look at documents we send and we want to make sure our docs have a score of 45 or higher to make sure we have a standard of readability in documents sent to patients.
From what I am seeing here, subs like r/aww are really hard to understand while the highest ones are still really hard to read but not by much more.
Men’s Lib is a left leaning sub that seeks to solve issues for men and is opposed to the manosphere and is open to feminism. I never encounter right wing points there
r/pics Apolitical? That sub was sold to dems years ago
ExplainLikeImFive’s reading level being at 9.1 is a clear failure if the sub…
r/NeutralPolitics
Look inside
Left leaning
How does your use of the FK grade level formula account for subs that will inherently involve some more complex, multi-syllable words repeatedly or multi-syllable words that are actually proper nouns or names? I’m guessing that’s how AskHistorians, Philosophy, and even EILI5 are high up in their FK grade level, as people will use a long multi-syllable word or name repeatedly while discussing it in layperson terms.
As a researcher using FK often, there’s some inherent caution in its use when topics will use what FK interprets as complex from syllable count but are actually common words even young school children can recognize, such as “Computer” or “Understand”, or proper names they’ll know, like “Washington”.
r/wallstreetbet proving once again they’re regarded !
Your analysis of the politics leanings of the subs is fundamentally flawed.
Reality does not reflect your data.
Enlightened centrists strike again
I unsubbed a long time ago from ExplainLikeImFive because nobody could read even its damn name
I’m sorry, but your methodology doesn’t make any sense, you aren’t actually analyzing anything of value because it’s contextually irrelevant and you’ve chosen to remove comments that you don’t feel match your model for some reason. For all you know, you’re just analyzing population data of super users in a sub, and first comment bias.
Anarchism being red is absolutely insane!
If conservatives could read this chart they’d be very upset. >:(
r/anarchism and r/tankiejerk being listed as “right” is enough for me to throw this whole thing in the trash.
I’m sorry but whatever methodology you used to determine right and left leaning is so godawful that it’s actually failing completely at its job. It’s not just a stretch, it is explicitly labeling things the opposite of what they are in multiple cases. You really need to work on it because right now, this is actively wrong and misinforming the reader.
Communism being up there with philosophy says a lot about the people in our society who are really into communism
Republican and Democrat being dead even.
Shit maybe the centrists were right
Amazing, r/philosophy and r/communism are so similar.
Hey guys I think r/communism might have a left wing bias
TwoXChromosomes being left-wing???
How is it possible for r/politics to be in the bottom half of bias?
I love how out of the loop has a 9.5 cause the people in the loop are usually well-educated.
MensLib right-leaning?
Would be interested to know how they arrived at that conclusion given that it’s literally an intersectional feminist sub.
Wish I could see the reading level for r/conspiracy cause… oh boy.
So the centrists are enlightened!
Uh, I thought menslib was like “how can we not be pieces of shit and be better humans to each other and to women” that’s pretty not right.
Hold up? r/MensLib is RIGHT leaning? By… what metric? They bend over backwards and flagellate themselves repeatedly over how feminist they are. Tf is this?
Why the heck do you have red for right and blue for left must be an American I guess the rest of the world were usually have red for left and blue for right
r/ModeratePolitics is drastically overrated in these results
also wtf is r/Anarchism doing in the “right” category?
Comments are closed.