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The Rabbis Experiment: the complexity of the method
Their method of measuring "distances" is very complex.
| Two five letter words typically require the measurement of over 6 million distances | |
| The results are very sensitive to small changes in the method. | |
| If one uses the mathematically natural square root in a distance, their results would be worse by a factor of 92 | |
| Dropping obsolete forms of 15 and 16 decrease probability by a factor of 5 | |
| When Haralick redid the method (but used what I believe is flawed data), the probability dropped from 1 in 62,500 to 1 in 400 |