Because the claim was made that spanning several orders of magnitude is sufficient to allow application of Benford's law: > The big one you need to look for is

Because the claim was made that spanning several orders of magnitude is sufficient to allow application of Benford's law: > The big one you need to look for is that the variable spans multiple orders of magnitude. > Berkshire Hathaway going back to 1980 spans three orders of magnitude, so we're good there. > BTC going back 7 years is also decent. It's not quite as good - only spanning two orders of magnitude - but it's enough that we would expect Benford's Law to apply better than it does in this graph. This claim is false. I provided a counterexample to demonstrate as much. Whether or not it's "pathological" is both subjective and irrelevant.