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An Australian computer scientist named Brendan McKay set out recently to demonstrate that the same thing can be done with any long book. He applied Drosnin’s observational selection technique to Moby Dick and produced such eerie phrases as “M L King” next to “To be shot by them” and “Princess Di” next to “mortal in the jaws of death.” So by throwing away all the strings that spell nothing, you can just wait until eventually a coincidence comes along. That’s the error of observational selection.
一個叫做Brendan McKay的澳大利亞計算機科學家最近證明從任何書都能組成神奇的字符串。他把Drosnin的觀測選擇技術應用到《Moby Dick》書中，產生了怪誕的短語“M L王”，緊挨著短語“被他們槍斃”。“公主迪”緊挨著短語“死亡魔爪下的道德”。所以拋棄所有沒有意思的字符串，你耐心等待直到形成新的組合即可。這就是觀測選擇的缺點。
