Can someone explain Benford’s Law to me. I get that certain numbers show up more often in large data sets, but why?
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Other folks have answered pretty well but an important thing to bring up is that Benford’s law cannot be applied to election data.
A big thing following the 2020 election was people on the right tried to use the fact that several districts vote tallies did not fall into the Benford curve. This caused a lot of people to claim election fraud.
Benford’s Law was misused here primarily in the following way
These charts often focused in on specific voting precincts. Benford’s law requires the data being analyzed to be very big. Something that the population of these precincts are not.
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