Re: VMs: Qualitative vs. Quantitative

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- GC <glenclaston@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Rene wrote:
> 
> Pardon my snip -
> > In recent months there
> > haven't been many discussions about quantitative
> > information. It's been but much more qualitative
> > (almost arm-waving) but don't be misled by that.
> 
> I am certainly not in disagreement with what you've
> just said from your
> vantage point. 

I also want to clarify that it is not a criticism.
There is a lot of time involved in doing actual
stats on the text. I just wanted to caution some
of the new members, that behind general statements
like 'the entropy is low' or 'the text is
highly repetitive' or 'words are relatively short'
or 'there are too few repeated text segments'
or 'there is an anomaly in the word pairing' 
there are actually quantitative results which 
(in)validate these statements.

Cheers, Rene

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