Shakespeare writes like butt
Statistical analysis is fun stuff, and you can do interesting things with it when your goals are reasonable and your methodology is sound. One of the things you can’t really do in any meaningful sense, though, is take a small sample of writing and say what famous writer it is most like without providing a whole lot of caveats.
Which doesn’t stop people from putting up silly toys on the web like I Write Like.
And so you get things like this:
Paul Hart Said,
July 14, 2010 @ 11:15 am
butts!
alison Said,
July 14, 2010 @ 11:17 am
I pasted in one of my old bluishorange posts, and it said I write like Dan Brown. Guess I have to commit suicide now. Is it possible to hang oneself using inaccurate adverbs and confusing metaphors?