Does Your Writing Style Have a Fingerprint?

Is it possible that your writing style is identifiably unique? In the late 1800s, a Polish philosopher named Wincenty Lutos?awski imagined a ?future science of stylometry,? whereby the singular style of an author could be quite literally measured. In such a future, controversies over authorship would be resolved not by literary scholars but by statisticians, and data would provide the answer. Sounds like pie in the sky, right? But it turns out that Lutos?awski was right. Over the past 50 years, stylometrists have fashioned a promising way to identify authorial signatures using something called ?lexical glue.? Listen as Bob Garfield and I talk about how a bunch of seemingly inconspicuous words actually stand out.

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