副標題：We analyse two centuries of scholarly work本篇主要說文章有越來越難度的趨勢（經濟學人衡量的方式不知道算不算科學，作為第二語言有時候很簡單的詞語對我來說也很難）
事件背景：發表慶祝其博士學位帖子If it was Ms Louks’s research topic (“olfactory ethics”—the politics of smell) that caught the attention of online critics, it was her verbose thesis abstract that further provoked their ire.帖子的可讀性：Ms Louks’s abstract had a reading-ease rating of 15, still more readable than a third of those analysed in total.那真的超級難讀了
經濟學人分析文章難度的數據：To track academic writing over time, The Economist analysed 347,000 PhD abstracts published between 1812 and 2023. The dataset was produced by the British Library and represents a majority of English-language doctoral theses awarded by British universities.
經濟學人分析句子和單詞長度衡量可讀性：A score of 100 roughly indicates passages can be understood by someone who has completed fourth grade in America (usually aged 9 or 10), while a score lower than 30 is considered very difficult to read. An average New York Times article scores around 50 and a CNN article around 70. This article scores 41.看來經濟學人自己也知道自己的文章難讀了
責任不全在作者：Other studies of academic writing have similar findings: scientific?jargon and acronyms are on the rise. The blame does not fall solely?on authors. Specialisation and advances in technology require more?precise terminology and a doctoral thesis often covers some of the?most obscure research topics越來越難讀的話也不適用傳播學吧
