時差N小時:神奇的字符串(上)

Science is all about rationality. It’s about figuringout the way things really work. But my believe hasbeen shaken , I heard about Michale Drosnin’s book“The Bible Code”. Oh, Michale Drosnin’s book “TheBible Code”. That’s the bestseller where the authormade strings of letters by taking, say, every 50thletter from a famous bible passage. Then he claimedthose strings predicted the future. That's the one.The new strings of letters keep producing words andeven phrases! Statisticians call this kind of thing“observational selection.” That means if you areallowed to ignore all the data that add up to nothing, it’s actually easy to come up withapparently amazing coincidences.

科學(xué)是研究合理性的學(xué)科。它找出事物運(yùn)行的方式。但最近我所相信的受到了震撼，我聽說Michale Drosnin的書《圣經(jīng)守則》。這是本暢銷書，書中作者將圣經(jīng)每頁的第50個字母串起來。然后他聲稱這些字符串能預(yù)測未來。就是這樣，字母構(gòu)成的新字符串能組成詞匯，甚至短語。統(tǒng)計學(xué)家稱此類事物叫做 “觀測的選擇。”這意味著，如果你忽略所有累加起來沒有意義的數(shù)據(jù)，就會很容易發(fā)現(xiàn)驚人的巧合。