diff --git a/app.py b/app.py
index 990fc31b03e50ebcac8f0102c611a515d5e9f48e..4c28f6bb5c02284318920ee577473b72a3fd5670 100644
--- a/app.py
+++ b/app.py
@@ -87,6 +87,11 @@ def dontcleankeepdirty(rd_df):
     return rd_df
 rd_df=dontcleankeepdirty(rd_df)
 
+def cleankeepdirty(rd_df):
+    # previously I deleted negative values, but keeping the nonesensical measurements illustrates our point.
+    #rd_df = rd_df.loc[sample(list(rd_df.index), 999)]
+    rd_df = rd_df[(rd_df["Reading_Level"] <55)]
+    return rd_df
 
 rd_df["Origin"] = ["ReadabilityScienceDeclining" for i in rd_df["Origin"]]
 
@@ -269,6 +274,9 @@ def main():
             ar, author_name, scraped_labels, author_score, art_df
         )
 
+    df_author = df_author[(df_author["Reading_Level"] <55)]
+
+
     genre = []
     genre.append("scatter plots")
     genre.append("tables")
@@ -521,7 +529,10 @@ def main():
                 st.markdown("# Abstracts:")
                 st.write(df_author)
             df_author_new = pd.concat([df_author, df_author_new])
+            df_author_new = df_author_new[(df_author_new["Reading_Level"] <55)]
+
             st.markdown("# Both:")
+
             st.write(df_author_new)
             #show_links == "Yes"