[mnehring]

Big joke. You can get similar results from pretty much any book of the same size. It is just a matter of statistics and the more word/letter combinations possible, the greater the chance of finding patterns. I recall several years back, someone tested this same ‘prediction’ method with several novels and got the same results.

[stroll]

Big joke. You can get similar results from pretty much any book of the same size. It is just a matter of statistics and the more word/letter combinations possible, the greater the chance of finding patterns. I recall several years back, someone tested this same 'prediction' method with several novels and got the same results.

Yep. If there's any validity to this notion, it ought to be possible to predict (for example) the winner of the 2016 election or for that matter the 2216 election right now, not when there is already a known or at least probable answer to which the "code" can be tailored.

[DManA]

But interestingly it works less well, to a statistically significant degree, with arrays of random letters.

You can get similar results from pretty much any book of the same size. It is just a matter of statistics