Intifada
Our next set of experiments pair the key word intifada with each of the four refugee camps, including as before the two spellings of Jabalya. The combined result experiment was not statistically significant. However, it is interesting that there is a relatively compact table pairing the key word intifada with the key word Jabalya spelled with one Yod. With expected number of ELSs set to 10, the probability that a text from the ELS random placement text population would produce as small a table as this is 46.5/1,000.
The fact that the key word intifada seems to have some relationship with the key word Jabalya suggested that we look further. Rabbi Glazerson thought of trying the date. The date the intifada started is December 9, 1987 and this corresponds to the Hebrew data the 18th of Kislev of the year 5748. First we add the key word 18 of Kislev. With expected number of ELSs set to 10, the probability that a text from the ELS random placement text population would produce as small a table as the one produced by the Torah text is 33.5/1,000.
Next we added the year (5)748 to the key word Intifada. With expected number of ELSs set to 10, the probability that a text from the ELS random placement text population would produce as small a table as the one produced by the Torah text is .757, certainly not statistically significant. Yet to the naive eye, perhaps the resulting table appears relatively compact. Of course it is not relatively compact.
Adding the 18th Kislev date and Jabalya as key words with intifada produced a table that is 16 rows by 137 columns and so it is awkward to show. With the expected number of ELSs set to 10, the probability that a text from the ELS random placement text population would produce as small a table as this 16 rows by 137 column table is 9.5/1,000.
When an event is encoded, the encoded tables as determined with our current methodology, give some of the main headlines of the event. A key word like intifada is surely one of the key words that would be involved as we already have seen. But we felt that there ought to be more. After some snooping around the ELSs of intifdada, we found it in a compact meeting with PLO, Fatah, and Arab. Had these been a priori chosen key words, the probability of a text having as compact a table as that produced by the Torah text is 13/1,000.
