Whether the reader agrees or disagrees with the text is irrelevant, other than to say something you disagree with is far more involving than simply being told what you want to hear.
Many studies have shown that even a university professor, used to dealing with long and complex documents, wants simple, short sentences when he picks up his newspaper.
Thus the average reading age of a newspaper reader is reckoned to be about eight, which is no reflection on the reader's actual reading age.
Claud mentioned her target audience, which is the readership of a general internet forum, comparable to that of a newspaper.
Her stuff might well work as an article in a learned journal, but not on here where everyone's attention span is comparable to that of a goldfish.
