Rosettes and Revelations Pt.1: The Holy City - Koen Gheuens and Cary Rapaport

[Koen G]

These methodical differences are interesting.

They sure are. What I'm saying is that accounting for all the details doesn't necessarily make a theory any better. If memory serves, Michelle and Keagan account for quite a number of details for the rosettes page, but they think it's a uterus. I'm sure that if they allowed themselves a bit more leeway and studied more gynecological texts, they could eventually link everything on the page to things that have been written in the Middle Ages about the female reproductive system. If eventually they take in more details than you do, does that make them the winner? There surely have to be other criteria.

Another issue is that the more details one forces into one's theory, the more entrenched this theory becomes. It's the confirmation bias the VM so famously inflicts upon people of all levels of intelligence and education. So rather than encouraging people to engage in this activity, I'd rather tell them to be wary.