They didn't understand the math, so naturally assumed it wasn't important. 
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I wanted to continue with stylometric analysis, but getting access to searchable, electronic versions of the necessary texts required funding I didn't have.
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Yea.its another cool thing about emerging open access solutions
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Yes, definitely. I
open access. But the problem (for me) is that critical editions are (usually) still under copyright. It's one thing to have open access to contemporary research. Open access to source texts is 'a whole nother thang'...1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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To translate: the collected works are an affordable but inferior data set. The complete works (aka a critical edition) are the ideal data set for the hypotheses i want to test, but not publicly available electronically. Grrr.
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During my defense, my statistical conclusions were rejected (by one jury member) on this basis: Yeah, sure, you *proved* it. But only for the inferior data set, not the ideal one.
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::shudders::
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If you're interested, I can tell you a story: there's an early text in German Idealism called the Systemfragment (1801). No one knows for sure who wrote it. Using traditional methods (textual analysis), 3 authors have been plausibly put forward. My hypothesis was (& is) ...
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...that one could definitely determine the author via stylometric analysis. The problem is that one would need access to the Complete Works of all 3 authirs in order to make the necessary analysis. It might sound mundane for someone used to quantitative analysis, but...
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No i think that stuff is useful and interesting tof stitching together a chronology
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