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I would count minor typos (like 'mitochondira') and spelling errors (like 'mitocondria'), and trivial variants (like 'mitochondrium') as correct. I'd count major typos, where the pronunciation would be majorly different from the correct name, as neither correct nor incorrect -- ditch the data, since it may require too many judgment calls about whether someone's zeroing in on the correct name, and since the respondents themselves weren't told how much to make their calibration correct-spelling-sensitive. So my system says:
Heisenberg
Hawai'i
Odin
Jacob
Indonesia
Hawaii is both in the 'Also correct' and the 'Neither' list.
One uses a typewriter apostrophe ('), the other doesn't (`).
No, bbleeker is saying that "
Hawaii" (no apostrophe) is in both lists.Ah. "Hawaii or Arkansas" is its own entry, and was typed in as an answer.