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This resource describes in "plain English, some basic concepts in statistics that every writer should know."

The Fog index was developed by Robert Gunning to measure how hard something is to read. His Fog Index in The Technique of Clear Writing (McGraw-Hill) is considered the most reliable formula for testing your writing. It is not an index of how good your writing is, but of how easy it is to understand. Using the index, grant administrators can test the communications they send to constituent groups.

The material provided is from the Empirical Research Methods course taught by Gary Klass, Department of Politics and Government, Illinois State University. The purpose of the course is to teach students the principles of research design, data collection, data analysis, and data presentation employed in empirical social science research. The content provided addresses constructing good charts and graphs.