Using the technique ‘statistical stylometry’, which appears more suited to maths nerds than literary ones, scientists sought to determine what connection, if any, there was between writing style and successful literature based on a range of factors.
Looking at novels from several different genres the computer scientists from Stony Brook University in New York found that there were distinct linguistic patters shared among successful literature from the same genre, making it possible to build a model with ‘surprisingly high accuracy’.
