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English Proverb: Separate the wheat from the chaff
The boys of summer are well into their season, the games (and the weather) are heating up, and soon, it will be time to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Separating the wheat from the chaff is to separate the good from the bad.
Farmers do this when they winnow crops.
Yes, we will soon learn which teams can make it into the playoff rounds and which teams will not.
In the world of sports, separating the wheat from the chaff means distinguishing the top-performing teams from the underachievers, the contenders from the pretenders, and the champions from the also-rans.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 73.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.
