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The two links that reference FDA are no longer good. The information concerning the toxicity of beans may be inaccurate. If no one has a source on bean toxicity I think it should be removed. Jimmeyjazz (talk) 01:44, 10 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]


actual link for reference 2: http://www.medicago.se/phaseolus-vulgaris-lectin-e-pha-e HHz/Eisfisch, July 14,2013 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.168.90.11 (talk) 00:17, 14 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]


This sentence(In neuroscience, anterograde tracing is a research method that uses the protein product phytohaemagglutinin PHA-L as a molecular tracer that can be taken up by the cell and transported across the synapse into the next cell thereby tracing the path of axonal projections and relative connections that nerve impulses travel beginning with the source located at the perikaryon (cell body or soma) and through the presynaptic part located on neuron's efferent axon all the way to the point of termination at the efferent synapse which then provides input to another neuron.) has a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of 40.9 and is one of the best sentences I've ever read. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.140.178.250 (talk) 04:37, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Flesch–Kincaid grade level formula is simplistic to the point of uselessness. Its only parameters are the ratios words/sentences and syllables/words, neither of which are good measures for difficulty. For example, if ‘the ratios’ had been removed from the previous sentence, it would have gotten a a better score, but it would have been less readable. The sentence you quote is long, yes, but this is not a problem since all the parts of the sentence string onto each other like beads on a string, logically moving from one concept to the next. There is also no good evidence that long words hamper readability all that much. Sure, in theory rare words are longer on average and you learn them later, but once you know them they're words like any other and adults know quite a lot of words. Common, but long, words and long words which are explained within the sentence itself make the Flesch-Kincaid score even more useless.