25-09-2020, 08:59 PM
(25-09-2020, 08:52 PM)MichelleL11 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Oh, I don't think he intentionally twisted any data. It just strongly appears that he intentionally chose particular data to include (and by implication) chose particular data to not include. That's what cherry picking is. ..
Right. Cherry-picking is selectively including or ignoring (picking out the ripest cherries). It can happen consciously or unconsciously. It often happens unconsciously by people who don't fully understand empirical methods or the logic behind them.
It is also one of the biggest problems with most Voynich substitution solutions. Picking out a few words that seem to work and ignoring those that don't (or calling them filler or gibberish or polyglot without any demonstrable evidence of this being the case) is a very prevalent (and flawed) strategy.