Statistics against irritations: a response to Dickens's apologists
Physics and Society
2013-06-04 v1
Abstract
In a recent article (arXiv:0909.2479) I reported the results of the test, where the takers had to tell the prose of Charles Dickens from the prose of Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The former is a required reading in school, and the latter has a bad writing contest named after him. Nevertheless, the test-takers performed on the level of random guessing. This research has met much criticism, which I refute the in the present article.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1306.0061,
title = {Statistics against irritations: a response to Dickens's apologists},
author = {M. V. Simkin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.0061},
year = {2013}
}