# Gaskell 2022: Gibberish after All? Voynichese Is Statistically Similar to Human-Produced Samples of Meaningless Text

> Daniel E. Gaskell, Claire Bowern, 2022. 7 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The surveys use it as the strongest published case that the text could…

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# Gibberish after All? Voynichese Is Statistically Similar to Human-Produced Samples of Meaningless Text

Daniel E. Gaskell, Claire Bowern, 2022. _Proceedings of the International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript 2022 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3313)_.

Compares the Voynich text with samples of meaningless text written by people and finds it statistically similar to them.

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## What it's used for here

The surveys use it as the strongest published case that the text could be deliberate gibberish, and as a source of controls.

## Cited by on this site 7 records

[Reading Without a Key](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D8NJAWT22V4/reading-without-a-key)

The book, version 2.0

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[6 methods surveys]

Signal processing, cryptanalysis, mathematics, linguistics, inductive methods, encoding procedures

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## Cite it

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Gaskell, D. E., & Bowern, C. (2022). Gibberish after All? Voynichese Is Statistically Similar to Human-Produced Samples of Meaningless Text. Proceedings of the International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript 2022 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3313). https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3313/paper4.pdf
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