[kennyc]

As I said, you're free to believe (and argue) whatever you want. You apparently don't understand science and know no more about the experiment than anyone else reading the article.

Clearly there was a decision made with regard to what they considered literary and what they considered non-literary and as I said above, and other have said, that is a very fuzzy, grey area. The study apparently had some idea of how to make the distinction and it appears to be made on character vs plot lines.

Now my points about the Science of this is:

1. A scientific experiment is designed specifically to test a particular hypothesis.

2. A scientific experiment is set up to specifically rule out any observer or measurement bias. (including confirmation bias)

3. This particular experiment was peer reviewed and published in one of the two leading scientific journals and therefore should be considered to have been conducted, reviewed and validated following a scientific methodology.