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Scientific evaluation of Charles Dickens

M. V. Simkin

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Abstract

I report the results of the test, where the takers had to tell the prose of Charles Dickens from that of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who is considered by many to be the worst writer in history of letters. The average score is about 50%, which is on the level of random guessing. This suggests that the quality of Dickens' prose is the same as of that of Bulwer-Lytton.

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Journal reference
Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, volume 20, issue 1, pp 68-73, 2013
DOI
doi:10.1080/09296174.2012.754602
Subjects
physics.soc-phPhysics and Society physics.data-anData Analysis, Statistics and Probability stat.APApplications (Statistics)

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