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Are you being facetious or was this a real story? I'm not in America and have not heard of it.

• heartbreak 10y ago
  It's real, and it's not in the Opinion section. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/18/bernie-sanders-keeps-saying-his-average-donation-is-27-but-it-really-isnt/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/18/be... (Paywall)
  • chm 10y ago
    It wasn't behind a paywall for me at least. The article has a sensationalist headline but the content is what you would expect for a discussion about averages and pseudo-random quasi-uniform distributions : the average moves slightly. Big deal!
  • saganus 10y ago
    I didn't believed you until I read the article. "$137 million divided by 4.7 million is ... $29.14. More than 4.7 million contributions means, at most, 4,749,999 -- or else the campaign would round up to 4.8 million. Even with that higher number of donations, the average is $28.95. Which is more than $27." This is laughable...but I haven't yet decided if it's in a good or a bad way. I mean, really? they are complaining about a 1-2 dollar difference from what BS says?