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Dr Waltz writes that statistics are science, example is folklore.  
Statistics is doubtless a kind of science, some examples are no 
doubt folklore.  But in our discipline (as in any other), statistics are 
meaningless without a skilled interpretation.  With regard to 
examples, what do we have _but_ examples?

I should also add that philology traditionally gave particular weight to 
the significant reading, one of which might prove a relationship 
between 2 mss more conclusively than forty less telling readings.  
Before anybody tells me that I'm referring to the study of the classic, I 
know.  But the principle has also been used in NT text. crit., and I 
think that we should keep it in mind.

But we were not discussing the relationship between mss (in 
which statistics is used), but the evidence of our second century 
sources, which Bill had suggested had been overlooked in earlier 
mailings.

David Parker
DC PARKER
DEPT OF THEOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
TEL. 0121-414 3613
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