Wikipedia talk:CONSONANTS
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What an awesome essay this is. --Doncram (talk) 02:56, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
- ...awesomely bizarre :D ——SerialNumber54129 16:00, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
- "Real thing" is not a criteria in regard to deletion, though. We should be asking whether a high proportion of consonants is correlated with WP:V and WP:N. Based on this essay at this point in time, I'd say the sample size is too small. Jack N. Stock (talk) 06:44, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
The sample size might be small, but it's big enough to do a calculation;
Data | Consonant density | Existence | C Deviation | C Variance | E Deviation | E Variance | Covariance | Correlation | |
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n | c | e | dev(c) = (c − c) | var(c) = (c − c)2 | dev(e) = (e − e) | var(e) = (e − e)2 | cov(c,e) = dev(c)·dev(e) | cor(C, E) = cov(C, E) / (σCσE) | |
Rhynchobombyx | 0.86 | 1 | −0.01 | 0.00 | 0.33 | 0.11 | 0.00 | ||
Schtschurowskia | 0.73 | 1 | −0.13 | 0.02 | 0.33 | 0.11 | −0.04 | ||
dfgdgdsg | 1.00 | 0 | 0.14 | 0.02 | −0.67 | 0.44 | −0.09 | ||
TOTAL | 3 | 2.59 | 2 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.67 | −0.14 | |
MEAN | 0.86 | 0.67 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.22 | −0.05 | −0.89 | |
Standard dev | σ()=√var() | 0.11 | 0.47 |
This shows a correlation coefficient of −0.89. That is, a very strong anti-correlation. That is, exactly the opposite of the claimed effect – probability of existence goes down as the consonant density goes up. I suspect a bigger problem than the size of the sample is that it was not chosen at random. SpinningSpark 16:41, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
- You seem to be suggesting that better test of this hypothesis would involve random combinations of letters, and a calculation of whether random combinations with higher consonant density are more likely to produce words. All we need is a random letter-combination generator. Jack N. Stock (talk) 00:56, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
- No, I'm suggesting the whole idea is a heap of dingo poo. SpinningSpark 16:41, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
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