Cognition in the Wild by Edwin Hutchins
Published 1995 · 108,625 words · about 10 hours at an average pace
How hard is Cognition in the Wild to read?
Cognition in the Wild scores 66 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 70 out of 100
- Cognitive science and navigation terminology together.
- Sentence structure: 68 out of 100
- Long technical sentences.
- Abstraction: 78 out of 100
- Cognition relocated from the head to the system.
- Information density: 82 out of 100
- Extremely dense; navigation procedure described in full detail.
How Cognition in the Wild is regarded
Cognition in the Wild holds a literary regard score of 66 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.