Timeline for Do vote counts for Joe Biden in the 2020 election violate Benford's Law?
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| Nov 11, 2020 at 4:23 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | If you consult the other answers - and indeed the references to Benford's Law in the question - you will see that, even if it is applicable to some (limited) areas of accountancy, Benford's Law is not expected to be strongly applicable to electoral votes, due to the lack of broadly varying scale. Your answer side-steps this fatal flaw in the analysis. | |
| Nov 9, 2020 at 11:32 | comment | added | user1139082 | I cited the fictional movie because that's what the FBI agent was interviewed about in the link before it. FBI agent Cooper said about the technique: "Wolff also identified a series of suspicious transactions by the unusual frequency of the number 3 in their dollar values. Cooper said that was a use of Benford’s law, which lays out the predicted distribution of numbers in a naturally occurring set of data — and something accountants use all the time, through computer programs that analyze data, to sniff out possible problem spots. It identifies patterns that are against the normal. | |
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| Nov 9, 2020 at 6:22 | comment | added | Schwern | This answer would be better if it didn't cite a fictional movie. And because Benford's Law is applicable to finding possible accounting fraud does not mean it's applicable to voter fraud. | |
| Nov 9, 2020 at 3:26 | review | First posts | |||
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| Nov 9, 2020 at 3:21 | history | answered | user1139082 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |