副标题：We analyse two centuries of scholarly work本篇主要说文章有越来越难度的趋势（经济学人衡量的方式不知道算不算科学，作为第二语言有时候很简单的词语对我来说也很难）

事件背景：发表庆祝其博士学位帖子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.帖子的可读性：Ms Louks’s abstract had a reading-ease rating of 15, still more readable than a third of those analysed in total.那真的超级难读了

经济学人分析文章难度的数据：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.

经济学人分析句子和单词长度衡量可读性：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.看来经济学人自己也知道自己的文章难读了

责任不全在作者：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越来越难读的话也不适用传播学吧