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Ну вот, опять:

... Rob Lee, Philip Jonathan, and Pauline Ziman, "Pictish symbols revealed as a written language through application of Shannon entropy", Proceedings of the Royal Society A, in press.

The authors ... calculate certain statistical measures for some known writing systems, for things that are clearly not writing, and for the inscriptions in question, and they find that in terms of these measures, the inscriptions look more like the writing sytems than like the non-writing sets.

The trouble with this form of argument is that it's heavily dependent on the particular combination of statistical measure and comparison sets that we choose. And the argument is particularly unconvincing when there's an obvious alternative choice of comparison set — generated by a simple random process — that would fall squarely on the side of the line that allegedly identifies "written language".

Старика Оккама на них нет! А ведь мог бы и полоснуть. Да и Шеннон в гробу ворочается, опять же.