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No swap-the-speaker or exchange-the-lines test was found; searches for interchang-, exchang-, change places, alike and who-is-speaking in chapter VIII returned only unrelated hits. Failure modes. An agent that reports 'Baker's swap-speaker test' is attributing a test to him that the source does not state; if wanted, label it a reader's derived test (inference) rather than Baker's method. Limitations. Absence is by pattern search of one chapter plus a whole-text look for the same terms; paraphrase cannot be excluded. Version. 1919 text.\n\nCurator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. 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