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Cities
The Jewish communities experiment
uses the cities or communities of birth or death of the personalities in WRR,
as opposed to dates, which is what WRR used.
To guarantee that the list of communities and their Hebrew spellings are correct
as well as a priori, a linguistic rule based algorithm is used to determine the spellings of
the information derived from the Margolioth Encyclopedia
and the
Encyclopedia Hebraica. Every entry for the list is obtained by this linguistic protocol (LP) without exception,
and can be checked for accuracy. The algorithm, too, can be checked for linguistic accuracy and
completeness. Thus, the individual community names are not subject to errors in judgment or the
non uniform application of vague rules. Furthermore, the data is completely and mechanically reproducible.
The experiment tested the Null hypothesis of No Torah Code Effect against the
alternative that the rabbi appellations and their corresponding city names have ELSs that are
closer together than expected by chance. The p-level was 4/1,000,000.
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