That writing style meme

[dipenates]

I tried that Who Do You Write Like? "statistical analysis tool" that is doing the rounds.

Apparently I write like: Mark Twain, Raymond Chandler, Chuck Pahluniak, Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, Dan Brown, James Joyce, J.K Rowling, Margaret Atwood, and Isaac Asimov.

Not to hurt the feelings of the "statistical analysis tool", but science is laughing in its face.

(I am unsuccessfully trying to fight down the tiny bit of satisfaction that my results were heavy on the Vonnegut and Asimov. I write nothing like either of these people.)

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[rahirah]

Not only did I get three different writers, I got two of them on chunks of writing which contained about 50% identical passages. I'm pretty sure I can't write like Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft in the same paragraph.

[dipenates.livejournal.com]

That does seem somewhat unlikely.