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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><font size="+1" face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">On 1/22/2019 11:00 AM,Peter Gutmann wrote,<br>
>I showed it to a psychologist and asked "which type of
mental health disorder could the creator of this work have?".<br>
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If the manuscript was indeed the product of someone with a
mental disorder, it is interesting that the characters/words
seem to share the statistical properties of known languages:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse/Courses/CS5761-SPR04/Projects/rajk0007.pdf">http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse/Courses/CS5761-SPR04/Projects/rajk0007.pdf</a><br>
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A follow-up question might be whether schizophrenics (etc.)
typically produce texts that follow Zipf's law, etc., the way
normal languages do. If their text is "flatter" or otherwise
statistically distinct, that would count against this theory.
(I'm not able with a quick google to find results of statistical
analysis of the speech of such individuals.) (But it's a very
creative angle to take in any case!)<br>
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Grant Schultz<br>
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