[Article] [Article]: New article by Layfield & Davis

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It is so simple. Confoliate and conjoint correlation compliments this scenario nicely and the conclusion of this investigation should not surprise any hoax hypothesist.

Gaskell and Bowern (2022) confirmed this experimentally: when they asked volunteers to produce meaningless text, many independently adopted exactly this approach.

Gaskell and Bowern (2022) also noted explicitly that their 42 writing samples were short. They acknowledged that their data is insufficient to prove whether the "higher-level structure" and long-range patterns seen across the 200+ pages of the Voynich Manuscript could be sustained purely by intuitive gibberish:

"We recruited 42 volunteers to write short “gibberish” documents and statistically compared them to several transcriptions of the VMS and a large corpus of linguistically meaningful texts... However, our writing samples are too short to test whether the higher-level structure of VMS pages and quires could also be produced by gibberish"
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Morover, the Voynich text adheres to highly reststrictive rules regarding which characters can be placed next to each other, so while we humans naturally tend to repeat words to fill a page, sustaining such strict unnatural structural rules over hundreds of pages implies a deliberate, conscious generation system or algorithm, rather than just an intuitive, passive reflex.