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Re:Who Wrote the Anti-Trump New York Times Op-Ed? Using Tidy... by seth_tr on Saturday September 08, 2018 @06:50PM (#17943240)
At the end of the article the author discusses this, quoting this tweet: https://twitter.com/dmimno/status/1037490608015925248

"Now might be a good time to remind everyone that “distinctive phrases” and rare words (high TF-IDF) are not as good for stylometry as subtle differences like “and” vs “the” ratios. If you can easily notice it, someone can easily spoof it."

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Re:Who Wrote the Anti-Trump New York Times Op-Ed? Using Tidy... by emmelaich on Saturday September 08, 2018 @08:09PM (#17943542)
Then again stylometry would be the thing you'd expect to change most between a tweet and an article published with style checkers and editors.
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Re:Who Wrote the Anti-Trump New York Times Op-Ed? Using Tidy... by dickfickling on Sunday September 09, 2018 @12:17AM (#17944325)
Is "'and' vs 'the'" ratios an actual thing? I tried searching for it, but as you can imagine "and vs the" does not return any useful results on google or ddg.
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Re:Who Wrote the Anti-Trump New York Times Op-Ed? Using Tidy... by ggm on Saturday September 08, 2018 @10:18PM (#17943969)
here's a shout-out for stylometry:

https://books.google.com/books/about/To_Couple_is_the_Custom...

(obviously, biassed since I'm related)

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