The only part of the process that I'm not confident about is the control.

Say I compare Slinker and Stinker, and they have almost exactly the same average sentence length, FOG readability index and so on, how do I know I wouldn't get the same result comparing Slinker with Ernest Hemingway or Toni Morrison or Irvine Welch?

You'd need to be able to say with confidence that if author A scores a 97% similarity score with author B, then you couldn't get the same result with author X.

The mis-spellings ought to be quite easy to implement though:

Author A makes the following mistakes every time.
Author B makes the following mistakes every time.

That would convince me...
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