On 09/16/11 10:35 AM, Fred Bauder wrote: >> Nice to know we are as accurate and more up-to-date than the competition. >> I'd love to see further work done on the 2% of information where we >> currently differ from the textbooks, hopefully most of that will just be >> that the textbooks are out of date. But it would be good to have that >> confirmed and any errors fixed. >> >> As for "The study authors recommend that patients use the PDQ site first >> so >> they are not inundated by complex information and hyperlinks". I'm not >> sure >> how dumbed down things have to be for ninth graders - but if I'm right in >> assuming that ninth graders is American English for early teens >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_grade then I'm surprised they think >> hyperlinks might be beyond them. Is it just possible that someone in the >> medical profession is being patronising to the public here? > It is difficult to balance the needs of the general public, which reads > more at a 5th grade level than a 9th grade level, with the need to > present comprehensive information that would be of use to an oncologist. > > If we addressed this problem in a systemic way we would present alternate > articles at differing levels of comprehensiveness and readability. > > Perhaps in the future. > > That could be a project for simple-wp to undertake.
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