Clarity Indices of Selected Directives Issued within the DoD Affecting Project Managers.

摘要

The Gunning Fog Index (FI) is applied to 19 directives, instructions, military standards, regulations, etc., in the functional areas of Project Management, Systems Engineering, Integrated Logistics Support, System Safety, Human Factors/Engineering, Cost/Schedule Control Systems Criteria, and Reliability/Maintainability. Indices ranging from 19.7 to 26.7 are found. Such high indices are considerably above what Gunning recommends as an index of clear writing (17 for a college graduate). Results of questionnaires on the same areas returned by PMs suggest some correlation of their opinions regarding clarity with the FI, but Rank Order Statistics fail to adequately support by hypothesis that the correlation exists. Explicit comments by PMs are quoted (non-attribution). (Author)