Stylometrist

What is to be said of the authorship of the Epistles is in the end a matter for the Scripture scholar, not the stylometrist.

For every stylometrist whose research supports an attribution, there is another who can point out weaknesses in that research and cast doubt on the claim.

David Hoover — a skilled stylometrist, and therefore a great lover of lists—likes to play a game with his students in which he shows them a list of novels and asks them to rank them according to “vocabulary richness” (defined as the largest number of different words per fifty-thousand-word block)