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Nice try cambridge. Stand-Up Maths on Youtube already beat you to it.

• herodotus 6y ago
  Actually, Stand-Up math directly quotes from the linked article.
• petee 6y ago
  Well first, it was published "Summer 2011", right at the top, and second, why be snarky? Cambridge is clearly more reputable than some guy on YouTube...not to knock that guy, but he's still just some guy on youtube
  • kahrl 6y ago
    "some guy on Youtube" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Parker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Parker
    • petee 6y ago
      I appreciate the link but still never heard of him; like most though, I've heard of Cambridge. Publishing on youtube requires no peer review or approval,so it's literally just some guy, and in the context here it's still odd to slap down Cambridge for a youtube video
• gopalv 6y ago
  > already beat you to it. Netflix's "Connected" had an episode which was probably prescient on this topic. There was an election analyst at the end of the episode, who said that Benford's law is broken when people vote strategically against a candidate or change their vote when their preferred candidate drops out.
  • esoterica 6y ago
    > Benford's law is broken when people vote strategically against a candidate or change their vote when their preferred candidate drops out. That has nothing to do with why Benford's law doesn't work. Benford's law doesn't apply to precinct vote counts because precincts are roughly equally sized and Benford's law only applies to data that approximately follows a power law distribution and spans at least a few orders of magnitude.
• lhorie 6y ago
  For those who are interested in said video, here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etx0k1nLn78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etx0k1nLn78
• Ninjaneered 6y ago
  Relevant video, "Why do Biden's votes not follow Benford's Law?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etx0k1nLn78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etx0k1nLn78