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The Perfect Peshitta Text
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June 24, 2008

Dear Dave,

Your statement above that your "long codes" were found using a faulty Peshitta text is very important. Your long Bible code results are therefore worthless.

I have already shown you that your interpretation of the so-called "short codes" study (I guess that refers to your 95 "divine names" word study), is based on a misunderstanding of the underlying statistics. There is nothing remarkable about your observation of large "Z" values because you wrongly calculated the Z values using incorrect variances. You assumed incorrectlty that the letters in the text are perfectly randomly distributed, but they are not since they are organized into words, phrases, and sentences. Even with the wrong variances you found that about half of the "divine names" were less frequently found than expected. When I chose slightly more realistic estimates of the correct underlying variances of the letters, I found a typical normal (Gaussian) distribution with about half of the observed number of "divine names" slightly more than the calculated expected number and about half slightly fewer. Here is a summary of the results:

(1) the distribution formed a typically Gaussian (or normal distribution) bell-shaped curve demonstrating a correction factor of about 2 for the calculated ideal standard deviations;
(2) 47 "divine names" had fewer than the calculated "expected" number (the ideal number is half or 47.5);
(3) 48 "divine names" had more than the calculated "expected" number (the ideal number is half or 47.5);
(4) within one standard deviation of the mean there were 38 that were fewer than the mean and there were 36 that were more (the ideal number for each is 32.4);
(5) within two standard deviations of the mean there were 43 that were fewer than the mean and there were 44 that were more (the ideal number for each is 45.3);
(6) beyond two standard deviations of the mean there were 4 that were fewer than the mean and 4 that were more than the mean (the ideal number for each is 2.2).

Nothing remarkable about these data. I pointed out that you could change the text somewhat and you would always get the same type of wrong answers if you continued using the wrong variances.

Why do you continue to present your "long codes" as evidence in the introduction of your translations and recommend your faulty book, "Divine Contact"?


It is time to drop this silly Bible Code nonsense. It is an undesirable distraction

Sincerely,

Otto
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The Perfect Peshitta Text - by ograabe - 06-07-2008, 07:51 PM
Re: The Perfect Peshitta Text - by gbausc - 06-09-2008, 06:38 PM
Re: The Perfect Peshitta Text - by ograabe - 06-10-2008, 06:49 PM
Re: The Perfect Peshitta Text - by gbausc - 06-10-2008, 08:55 PM
Re: The Perfect Peshitta Text - by Stephen Silver - 06-16-2008, 10:57 PM
Re: The Perfect Peshitta Text - by *Albion* - 06-17-2008, 01:11 AM
Re: The Perfect Peshitta Text - by gbausc - 06-17-2008, 04:59 PM
Re: The Perfect Peshitta Text - by ograabe - 06-25-2008, 01:26 AM
Re: The Perfect Peshitta Text - by gbausc - 06-25-2008, 02:54 PM
Re: The Perfect Peshitta Text - by ograabe - 06-27-2008, 01:07 AM
Re: The Perfect Peshitta Text - by gbausc - 06-27-2008, 04:02 AM
Re: The Perfect Peshitta Text - by Stephen Silver - 06-27-2008, 05:49 PM
Re: The Perfect Peshitta Text - by ograabe - 06-28-2008, 01:36 PM
Re: The Perfect Peshitta Text - by gbausc - 06-28-2008, 05:36 PM

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