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1: Time Illusions, Electric Bees, and Fakespeares

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How to Debunk a Conspiracy Theory

Styleometry analyses a person's writing style to see things like common traits in their writing. You can then compare other people's style to other people in a very accurate way. The whole thing that Shakespeare couldn't spell his name right, famous people who were signing a lot of stuff at the time would shorten their own name down as well because they're amazing. Sigmund Freud believed it. Charlie Chaplin believed this. Helen Keller believed this. All of these really, really famous people believe this conspiracy theory which can be debunked in 20 minutes by a person with a podcast.

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