I can’t find this anywhere so far, but it seems crucial: what is the process of “gene” creation? Is he randomly choosing a number from 1 to whatever? And what is the whatever?
I believe you are correct; he randomly assigning a number with no duplicates. One of my suggestions was that he define how trees/graphs are generated.
What is the range of random numbers he’s using? And it does seem that he has reinvented a form of presence/absence parsimony, though I’m not sure he’s evaluated more than one tree against a star tree by that criterion. His point seems to be that a fully resolved tree can be more parsimonious than a star tree, even for random data. But what does that show? Certainly not what he seems to think.
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I don’t know. I think it’s just a label.
I stopped trying to understand what it shows when it became apparent that Eric doesn’t understand either. It just wasn’t worth my time to figure it out just to explain it to him. I won’t fault him for exploring ideas.
Sorry, I don’t know what you mean here. What’s just a label? It seems to me that he must have chosen “genes”, identified by numbers, from a small pool of integers from 1 to some unknown number. If he doesn’t tell you the number how can you make any sort of probability calculation?
I’ve told you all I know.