analyzing results from Tuesday's US elections
On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 19:02:19 -0800
Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
It was explained in the video... his counts were so small that they spanned the 1-9 and 10-99 ranges.
Sorry, missed that. I'll have to watch the video again. Thanks. cheers, Rolf
On November 13, 2020 6:59:49 PM PST, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 01:23:06 +0100 Martin M?ller Skarbiniks Pedersen <traxplayer at gmail.com> wrote:
Please watch this video if you wrongly believe that Benford's law easily can be applied to elections results. https://youtu.be/etx0k1nLn78
Just watched this video and found it to be delightfully enlightening and entertaining. (Thank you Martin for posting the link.) However a question springs to mind: why is it the case that Trump's vote counts in Chicago *do* seem to follow Benford's law (at least roughly) when, as is apparently to be expected, Biden's don't? Has anyone any explanation for this? Any ideas?