Interpreting the Results of
Copyright © 2014-2017 by David A. Falk



is a program that validates the consistency of proposed chronologies against a corpus of synchronisms. As such a lot of data is being produced, the results of this data are presented as a node-based interface that is color-coded.

There are three kinds of objects used: kings, dynasties, and events (synchronisms). Kings are always colored sand, and this color will not change. Kings are placed in containers which we call "dynasties." These dynasties do not necessarily conform to the scholarly consensus but are containers of convenience used to make computational processing more efficient. Kings and dynasties are logically connected with yellow lines, and events are logically connected to kings by bright green lines. When is calculating the results, all the dynasties in the live version may appear gray.

When the test completes, if at least one of tested chronologies is consistent with the synchronisms, the outer container is changed to olive green.

Pink is a error condition for a possible chronology. If none of chronological progressions are consistent or all the parent chronologies were marked as inconsistent, then the outer container is marked with light pink.

If a chronology could not be derived, the outermost container remains gray.

After the average chronologies are calculated, the resulting high and low chronologies are tested against the synchronisms to pinpoint which events might be causing an inconsistency. If the event is disabled, the event is marked cadet blue.

If the event is consistent, the event is marked bright green.

If the event is inconsistent with the chronologies, the event is marked red.

If the event is inconsistent but does not affect the overall consistency result, the event is marked orchid. This color marking is reserved rule 4 events, i.e., events that test for a particular absolute year but are not used directly in the date calculations.

And if the event cannot be tested because it refers to a unpopulated chronology, then the event is marked yellow.

If a chronology is shown to be inconsistent on one event compared to its baseline control, the entire chronological sequence should be regarded as flawed. And since the computer cannot do any further pattern matching with the available data, human intervention would be required to revise the proposed chronological sequence so that it is consistent with the corpus of synchronisms.