Editing Final Report 2010 (section)

====Discussion====
As can be seen, the results collected are not identical to the previous student’s results; however they are very different to the graph depicting the code from the Somerton man. It is clear that in both sets of results there is not 1 singular letter that has a frequency less than 1%. This leads us to agree with the previous assumption that the code has not been produced randomly in a sober attempt to deceive or create a diversion.

A very similar result was obtained with the intoxicated samples.  This suggests that it is also unlikely that the mystery code has been written in a random fashion by an intoxicated or delusional individual.

The fact that the two different results (this year and last year) show varying results is important.  This suggests that the amount of samples collected each time is most likely not enough to give a perfect answer as to whether or not the code has been produced randomly by an individual.  Future studies could work on taking a much larger number of samples to see whether the letter distribution varies greatly from those already collected and therefore also obtain a more definitive conclusion.

Another important detail is the small number of letters in the mystery code itself (about 45).  If a given letter of the alphabet is only expected to occur, say 1% of the time when produced randomly by a person, then it is highly likely that it would not occur at all in a sample of only 45 letters.  If it has been produced randomly this could explain why some letters, such as X, Y, and J are not present in the mystery code at all.  However, the high frequency of the letters K and Z in the collected samples suggest that this is not the case.

In summary, from the results obtained, it is feasible to assume that the mystery code has not been produced randomly by somebody in a state of intoxication or as a form of deception however this could be further established with a larger sample base.


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Below are the results obtained by the 2009 students.
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