This new, fascinating article references the linguistic study Professor Anderson mentioned last week. It raises a lot of great questions akin to what we've been discussing, including the value of analyzing literature via an algorithm. More interestingly, it supports the notion of being able to track psychological factors through the way a person writes!
Love this quote and what it suggests especially: " In his previous studies, Pennebaker had found a correlation between how students use articles and prepositions in their college-application essays and what grades they go on to get, and between self-referential writing and suicidality in poets. "
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-shakespeare-algorithm?intcid=mod-latest&mbid=social_facebook
thanks for the corrected link!
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