Names of places in Croatia

[FlatAssembler]

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

Then what is "ad-hoc hypothesis"? It is inventing reasons why an experiment wouldn't work. Saying, in response to my paper, "Maybe the collision entropy of the nouns in the Croatian language is significantly lower than the collision entropy of all the words in the Aspell word-list.", seems like an obvious ad-hoc hypothesis. What magic would make it do that? How do you know it is not higher, rather than lower? It is not an ad-hoc hypothesis if you said that about the Swahili language, as, because of the noun classes, some two-consonant prefixes which are possible for verbs aren't possible for nouns, so it seems plausible that the collision entropy of consonant pairs is indeed lower in nouns than in all Swahili words. Suggesting that for a Swahili-like language is not baseless, but saying that for Croatian seems like a baseless ad-hoc hypothesis.