(July 21, 2023 at 8:10 am)FlatAssembler Wrote:(July 16, 2022 at 3:22 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: The place names of croatian toponyms simply don't mean what you think they do. Linguists have told you this. Combatants have told you this. If I had to guess, random motherfuckers in your life have told you this.
Except that people who disagree with me are obviously making ad-hoc hypotheses and talking contradictory things.
My informatics professor Franjo Jović told me, essentially: "I mostly agree with you, however, I don't think it's plausible that up to 1.572 bits per consonant pair of collision entropy goes to morphology ('fleksija'). I think relatively little collision entropy goes to morphology. Thus, I think the p-value of that k-r pattern in Croatian river names is a lot closer to 1/17 than to 1/300.".
The Reddit user neuralbeans told me: "Maybe the collision entropy of the nouns in the Croatian language is a lot lower than the collision entropy of all the words in the Aspell word-list for the Croatian language. Have you checked that? Toponyms are nouns, and you should be comparing them to other nouns, and not to all the words in the Aspell word-list.".
Those are contradictory things. If my paper were seriously flawed, maybe people who disagree with me would point different things that are wrong with it. But they would not be talking contradictory things. Since they are talking contradictory things, I know my paper is not actually flawed, but that people are making up ad-hoc hypotheses.
Other people pointing out potential mistakes in your methodology is not the same as making ad hoc hypotheses.
Boru
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