The severity of an offence is determined using average sentences handed down by Canadian criminal courts. (slaw.ca)
Because a computer simulation is not the real world, the researchers compared their results with California's incarceration data since the mid-1980s, when mandatory drug sentencing became law and average sentence length for white and black offenders began to diverge. (sciencemag.org)
An earlier analysis by the Boston Globe used the Flesch - Kincaid readability test, which is based on average sentence length and average number of syllables per word, and found Trump speaking at a 4th grade level, two grade levels below his peers. (sciencedaily.com)