A Priori
An a priori experimental protocol means that the protocol was defined before the experiment was done and when the experiment was done, it was done in accordance with the experimental protocol. Experimenters who work interactively to construct a Torah code table are not working in an a priori manner and any tables constructed interactively cannot have an associated p-value that is statistically significant. Experimenters who look (peek) in areas around ELSs of a given word for ELSs of related words are not working a priori and the tables they construct cannot have an associated p-value that is statistically significant. Experimenters who examine skip texts looking for ELS phrases of meaningful words are not working a priori and the ELS phrase that they construct cannot have an associated p-value that is statistically significant.
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