Ahh. What I meant was that two different groups, using the same analysis method, analyze the same object (whatever that might be) and compare the result.
That is, how reproducible is the analysis?
Is the method so broad that it finds patterns in things we know are hand-made?
Is the method so vague that different groups come up with wildly different answers?
The [2] paper look very much cherry picking - finding a pattern and saying the odds of finding that pattern are incredibly unlikely, while ignoring the odds of finding any pattern.
As the old Feynman story goes, “You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight... I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!”
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