Comment on Welcome to Less Wrong! (5th thread, March 2013)

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:47:18 GMT

Most fundamentally, I have trouble translating the methods to a different type of data: from textual data like word length to the aforementioned Marks.

Have to define your features somehow.

Otherwise, my understanding of most stylometric analysis was that it favors frequentist methods.

Really? I was under the opposite impression, that stylometry was, since the '60s or so with the Bayesian investigation of Mosteller & Wallace into the Federalist papers, one of the areas of triumph for Bayesianism.

I have a follow-up question regarding GIGO: How can you tell what data are garbage? Are the degrees of certainty based on significant digits of measurement, or what?

No, not really. I think I would describe GIGO in this context as 'data which is equally consistent with all theories'.

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