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Re:Compare sentence length distributions of famous authors by thespoonbends on Sunday November 01, 2020 @11:09PM (#24964753)
What does "valid comparison" mean?

If the intent is to help potential readers to estimate the difficulty of the book, then that's useful.

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Re:Compare sentence length distributions of famous authors by mykowebhn on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:46PM (#24973805)
Couldn't the original degree of difficulty of a book be altered during the translation process? Not sure if this is an apples to apples comparison. If you stick to books written in the same language, then perhaps.
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