Hm. That’s indeed plausible. More so in our age where software can reliably detect authors reliably based on their writing fingerprint. I wonder what will become of pseudonyms in the future.
The last time I saw “writing fingerprint” software it was being used to “prove” that The Book of Mormon’s purported authors were real, in a study whose designers clearly would have failed at the 2-4-6 task. I’m afraid I tossed the idea in a mental box alongside “phrenology” after that.
Hm. That’s indeed plausible. More so in our age where software can reliably detect authors reliably based on their writing fingerprint. I wonder what will become of pseudonyms in the future.
Link, please? I seem to be failing at Google.
The last time I saw “writing fingerprint” software it was being used to “prove” that The Book of Mormon’s purported authors were real, in a study whose designers clearly would have failed at the 2-4-6 task. I’m afraid I tossed the idea in a mental box alongside “phrenology” after that.
The useful words are “stylometry” and “authorship attribution”.
The last time I read about this was here:
https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~sa499/papers/adversarial_stylometry.pdf
A quick google (for stylometry, fingerprinting) results in summaries e.g.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/software-helps-identify-anonymous-writers-or-helps-them-stay-that-way/?_r=0
Thank you both!