Speculative fraud hypothesis

[dexdex]

The previous message pointed out that, in the output of their test run, "70% were Voynich words"; implying that the similarity criterion was just that, namely the percentage of words (word instances or word forms, not clear) that were in the VMS lexicon.  If that was the criterion, then the "divergence" (a drop in the similarity as the algorithm progresses) is a problem, because it means that a significant part of the similarity was due to the fact that the seed text had been taken from the VMS.

All the best, --jorge

That was not the only criterion: various Zipfian laws as well as frequency distributions were also compared in the article.