The ball is not in the anti gematria's court on this one. I'm just suggesting a possible solution to answer if there's any predictve power to name numerology. Here's some background on good scientific testing:
http://m.wisegeek.org/what-is-a-double-blind-test.htm
In the quack world there are people that claim that they can talk to dead people which is the origin of the phrase "dead duck". Actually not, so don't waste your time looking it up. Because wasting time is what these people do by claiming they can use their psychic powers to waste the time of the grieving family. And money.
The talking to dead people thing has been going around for ages and a good starting point is Googling Houdini psychic challenge, James Randi, or watch Penn and Teller's inaugural episode of Bullshit! regarding how there's never been an actual documented case of somebody proving under controlled conditions that they have any psychic powers. YouTube videos about psychic screw ups including helping people locate missing people, bending spoons, etc...failing are a lot more entertaining than a gematria video.
I've seen gematria claimed to be used for prediction on death. I've seen gematria used to identify freemasonry membership. I've seen gematria used to identify race just based on name and be spectacularly off the mark.
So in theory a collection of a random sample could be obtained to test whether some of these things are actual predictable.
If you have large enough sample size a collection of, say, 1000 random 30-40 year old people will have some parents that have passed away and some that haven't. It's too much to ask to predict when someone is going to die. So how about our sample group writes down the names and birthdates of both parents. All the tested group needs to do is figure out based on the numerology if the list of 2000 named people are dead or not. There are two groups trying to identify the dead people, one that believes in gematria and one that doesn't.
The immediate reaction will be, "Gematria doesn't work that way". Which is why the control group is important. Any further information the numerology group being tested "needs" to solve the problem are given to both groups. Were they in a car accident yesterday? Were they ever diagnosed with cancer? What was their first pet's name? What city were they born in? - all manner of things whether directly correlated to life expectancy or outside what an ordinary person would care about regarding if a named person is dead or alive.
If the pro numerology side isn't really waiting until after someone dies to predict it they should have an observable increase in success rate. Or they can shut up about claiming that when it fails like it will. Now if the first claim is made that the elites only care about celebrities then just like what the magnitude of earthquake has been decided to be significant the bar of celebrity status has been established to include female porn stars. With the use of stage names and the significant size of the herd it should be easy to find some that the numerologists haven't researched ahead of time. Hey, if Isaiah Thomas's sister being in a car crash is gematria newsworthy, a porn star's parents should be. Beyond that, burden of proof is on your side. The ball's in your court. I'm just throwing out a starting point for discussion. The details of the experiment are up to you as long as an unbiased group agrees to the parameters. However, and this is really important. Although I don't want to waste my time on this.
I will personally get involved in the name list compilation of female porn star parents. It's a sucky job, but SOMEBODY has to talk to these people.
Testing whether somebody has a masonic name or is a particular race would operate the same way. I'm not working out the details here as the ball isn't in my court. However, if it gets to the point of testing if a female porn star is Asian based on name I'm willing to invest my time.
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