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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 02:09 PM
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53. There's a lot on that website
and the translations from Russian aren't always clear. But when you look at the numbers used (I've just started looking at another set - the kings of Judah v. the German kings/Holy Roman Emperors), you see that again, he's combining some reigns, using incorrect (ie not what the Bible says) for others, cherry-picking between dates of accession to the German throne and election as Emperor (ie he's inconsistent which he uses), and still he gets something with just 'roughly the right shape'.

The problem is that he seems to think that finding vague similarities (vague because he has to leave out some values, add others together, swap some) between 2 sets of digits means that one is a ripoff of the other. It doesn't. You can use rough fits for theories that have observational errors, but not for determining if one series was completely derived from another. He's trying to make the data fit his theory, not using the data to produce a theory.

He is doing pseudo-science.

And so far, you've done no analysis yourself whatsoever. You've just linked to this website with data that has been altered to fit a theory. That's why we're calling it 'rubbish'.
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