The belief that that these 170 speakers, each speaking many long passages in 17 languages would converge to 39bps through dumb luck is unlikely enough to be almost mystical.

edit: If I hear a case that is not insane as to how the numbers could somehow determine themselves (through bad math) or be p-hacked, I'd happily consider it. Instead people are acting like taking sentences of equivalent meaning and counting the syllables to determine information density is somehow laughably naïve.