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Judson D. McClendon wrote:
> You apparently haven't studied the original article 

You are right. I read it on the web, and my understanding of the
author's procedure may be flawed. However, nothing you've
written so far has helped me figure out what, if anything, I've 
missed.

> the birth and death dates were found in 'close proximity' to 
> names to which they belong, but not to the names with which
> they did not belong.

That is a test I looked for, but did not find. The authors seem
to have relied on scrambling the names or the text. If they did
compare the frequency with which they could find the names "near"
the correct dates as opposed to "near" some arbitrary dates, I
never read about it. Can you point out the passage to me?

I merely found the test to be one of being surprised to find that
it was possible to construct lots of instances of common names
using a text that contained lots of instances of the same common
names, and then finding that these instances often were "near" 
the birth or death dates associated with real people who actually
had these common names.

If you'll look at the table of names, you'll find that most names
have a Hebrew version in common with some other name. I suspect 
that there are millions of Jews who were given these common names,
and that their importance to Judaism has nothing to do with the
likelihood of being able to construct their names and dates using
ELSs from the Torah. This is even easier when you notice that the
Hebrew ways of spelling a given date are at least as varied as the
ways to spell these names. And then add in the point that the 
method used by the authors to chose their names is about as 
haphazard as looking for a name in the phonebook by pointing at
random. 

In any case, you seem to be convinced that the presence of these
codes means something. That opinion is probably off topic for half
of the groups to which this thread is crossposted, so let's leave
it out of the discussion, ok? What's on topic is the question if
the discovery of these "codes" is in fact a surprising statistical
anomaly. 

I am saying that given the parameters, the codes are about as 
unusual as finding two people with the same first names and 
birthdates in New York City. The authors' haven't convinced me
otherwise.
-- 
 Helge "Statistical certainties are flukes!" Moulding
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