Assessing the readability of online information about jones fracture

Table 3 Unpaired t-test for government non-government organizations vs academic websites

Readability metric	Government & NGO mean ± SD (range)	Academic mean ± SD (range)	Percentage mean difference	P value
Flesch reading ease	49.0330 ± 17.4883 (28.0-86.1)	53.5880 ± 14.3224 (23.2-66.6)	4.438	0.276
Flesch-Kincaid	10.7860 ± 2.9066 (5.0-15.6)	10.825 ± 4.083 (7.5-20.1)	0.362	0.554
Gunning fog	13.529 ± 2.869 (8.2-18.5)	13.1500 ± 4.5056 (9.6-23.5)	2.838	0.475
SMOG	9.8860 ± 2.1763 (5.6-13.4)	9.7880 ± 2.8478 (7.2-15.8)	0.998	0.453
Coleman-liau index	13.1670 ± 2.2265 (7.5-16.1)	12.0500 ± 0.7051 (11.2-13.0)	8.857	0.086
Automated readability	10.200 ± 2.8660 (4.6-16.0)	11.0000 ± 4.7413 (7.2-22.0)	7.547	0.290
Average grade level	11.51330 ± 2.55634 (6.18-15.68)	11.36250 ± 3.33421 (8.54-18.88)	1.319	0.665
Complex words	130.81 ± 117.662 (44-459)	122.380 ± 51.578 (70-210)	6.663	0.304
Percentage of complex words	0.1746810 ± 0.0552751 (0.0538-0.2356)	0.1414500 ± 0.0334975 (0.1063-0.1860)	21.024	0.187
Average words per sentence	16.90710 ± 3.23038 (14.03-25.71)	20.32130 ± 8.64815 (14.12-40.74)	18.341	0.090
Average syllables per word	1.67520 ± 0.19457 (1.21-1.85)	1.56750 ± 0.07459 (1.49-1.68)	6.645	0.041

NGO: Non-government organizations.