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> J.K. Rowling published a book called The Cuckoo’s Calling under the pen name Robert Galbraith only to be outed by someone performing advanced text analysis wi
by ec109685 9y ago
> J.K. Rowling published a book called The Cuckoo’s Calling under the pen name Robert Galbraith only to be outed by someone performing advanced text analysis with a computer.
That is highly misleading. She was outed by a person with inside knowledge (anonymous tip), which was confirmed by automated text analysis.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-did-computers-uncover-jk-rowlings-pseudonym-180949824/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-did-comput...
- petters 9y agoFurther, they only compared Rowling to three other authors and Rowling ended up second in at least one of the tests. The analysis likely did not prove anything by itself.