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KPier comments on Introduction: "Acrohumanity" - Less Wrong
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I have checked a few popular LW posts using the online Readability Calculator and they all came up in the 60-70 range, meaning "easily understandable by 13- to 15-year-old students". This seems like an exaggeration, but still a vast improvement over the score of 23 for your post ("best understood by university graduates").
I wonder if the LW post editor could use a button "Estimate Readability".
Using a different calculator I found that the ten highest scoring articles on LessWrong averaged a score of 37, range 27-46. That suggests that there's a fair bit of variance between scoring methods, but if we could find a consistent method, a "Estimate Readability' button in the post editor could be interesting.
I'm contemplating using some wget trickery to get a larger sampling-size.
Don't contemplate, just do it!