Way back in December 2021, I caught wind of the 2020 Revised Edition of the statutes in Singapore law:

Keeping Singapore laws accessible to all - AGC, together with the Law Revision Committee, has completed a universal revision of Singapore’s Acts of Parliament! pic.twitter.com/76TnrNCMUq

— Attorney-General's Chambers Singapore (@agcsingapore) December 21, 2021

The AGC highlighted that the revised legislation now uses “simpler language”. I was curious about this claim and looked over their list of changes. I was not very impressed with them.

However, I did not want to rely only on my subjective intuition to make that conclusion. I wanted to test it using data science. This meant I had to compare text, calculate the changes' readability statistics, and see what changed.