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As a friend of mine pointed out, how is this possible? Shouldn't fraudulent numbers also follow Benford's law?
by wooby 17y ago
As a friend of mine pointed out, how is this possible? Shouldn't fraudulent numbers also follow Benford's law?
- count 17y agoIf you are aware of it, you make sure your fake data follows Benford's law. Otherwise, your fake data will be 'random', because people assume that is how it is supposed to look.
- schammy 17y agoRandom data doesn't follow the law. Fraudulent tax returns are essentially random numbers, hence, detectable.
- shrughes 17y agoUniformly distributed random data doesn't follow the law. Data whose logarithm is uniformly distributed does.
- sown 17y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1076534 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1076534