Read the following excerpt from “Shakespeare’s Double Falsehood? Alas, that’s neither true nor false,” an essay by Laurie Johnson.
"So what does [Boyd and Pennebaker's] research tell us? As it currently stands, the answer is: nothing that scholars did not already strongly suspect. Have they proven these suspicions to be true? No. There are two unknowns in the research, each of which is trying to prove the other: on the one hand, the researchers want to identify the author of Double Falsehood; on the other, as they explain in their conclusion, they want to test whether computational methods are accurate in generating a “psychological signature” of an individual in his or her writing. The problem here is that we cannot independently verify that the psychological signature they attribute to Shakespeare is in fact his—we simply don’t know enough about him outside of his writing."
Explain why Johnson disagrees with the interpretation of Boyd and Pennebaker’s research presented in the article “Computer helps to figure out that an old play was written by Shakespeare.” Cite evidence from both texts to support your answer.
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