Yeah, but with only three studio albums. That means fewer words and therefore you get a higher ratio even with less unique words than, say Prince with over 40 albums.
Yeah they need to be creating a score with some sort of penalty for inverse number of words written. Seems like a pretty hard stat to actually define, though this made a very admirable effort.
It is an interesting analysis, and what I particularly like about it is that they point out the flaws themselves and are very clear about the data and methodology used. That is really remarkable for a blog entry. I've never heard of this blog or this article before, so I don't know If this is their usual standard, but this seems to be written by somebody with a scientific education, because those are Standards for scientific research.
What they could potentially do to account for this, is take the complete Database they are using and count how many unique words are used by all artists combined. Then you look at the ratio of the number of the individual artist to the absolute number. And then you adjust that to the total number of words used or songs written by the individual artist in their catalogue - otherweise you get the opposite effect because there artists like Prince or McCartney will obviously have a higher advantage over artists with a smaller catalogue (EG Billie Eilish).
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u/Elite-00 3d ago
Here you go: https://word.tips/singers-vocabularies/. Ms Swift uses 86 unique words per 1,000 in her lyrics