The Difficulty in Readability Testing
Since readability testing became a necessity for better patient understanding of leaflets, there has been a plethora of ways to test a leaflet. To the outsider, presenting a leaflet to a participant, asking a set of preset questions and recording the responses could appear to be enough to gauge the user friendliness of a Package Leaflet (PL). However, a simple yes/no dichotomic approach quickly yields an unforeseen variable which can aptly be demonstrated in the following hypothetical situation.
