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From: tim@unc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Book of Mormon
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Date: Thu, 10-Nov-83 14:47:33 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 10 14:47:33 1983
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Charlie Martin made a good point about the probable differences in the word
frequencies of multiple-personality sufferers (although the term he used,
"multiple personality schizophrenic neurotics", is incorrect -- multiple
personality is not considered a type of schizophrenia, since the individual
personalities do not tend to demonstrate schizophrenic symptoms).  However,
I might note that we do not have to go so far.  It is likely that a person
who consciously adopted different writing styles would be able to fake out
the tests mentioned by Russ.  I am willing, for instance, to wager that a
complete analysis of the works of Aleister Crowley would demonstrate more
than ten different authors.  Further, a writing style that is in development
would probably also show "different authors" when in fact they are simply
different periods in the development.
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Tim Maroney (not Moroni), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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