{"id":1966,"date":"2009-09-20T17:13:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T15:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2024-02-24T10:54:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T09:54:33","slug":"a-scientific-evaluation-of-charles-dickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/blogs\/icci-blog\/a-scientific-evaluation-of-charles-dickens\/","title":{"rendered":"A scientific evaluation of Charles Dickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A paper &#8211; or is it an hoax ? &#8211; by MV Simkin, forthcoming in Physics and Society. I didn&#8217;t know one could hate a writer so much.<\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I report the results of the test, where the takers had to tell the prose of Charles Dickens from that of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who is considered by many to be the worst writer in history of letters. The average score is about 50%, which is on the level of random guessing. This suggests that the quality of Dickens&#8217; prose is the same as of that of Bulwer-Lytton. Previously I reported similar results for the case of Modern Art<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/0909.2479.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Where&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=1864&amp;action=edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">art instinct<\/a> when you need it?<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/charlesdickens.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18849\" src=\"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/charlesdickens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk\/images\/UGSP00662_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" \/>Dickens and Bulwer-Lytton.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A paper &#8211; or is it an hoax ? &#8211; by MV Simkin, forthcoming in Physics and Society. I didn&#8217;t know one could hate a writer so much. 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