How to: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe

Published 2019 · 84,425 words · about 6 hours at an average pace

How hard is How to: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems to read?

How to: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems scores 47 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. 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: 45 out of 100
Plain, with real physics and engineering terms.
Sentence structure: 42 out of 100
Short, funny sentences.
Abstraction: 55 out of 100
Real science applied to absurd ends.
Information density: 55 out of 100
Dense with calculation per chapter.

How How to: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems is regarded

How to: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems holds a literary regard score of 35 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.

About the author

Randall Munroe