Sharing a link about Benford's law was all it took to have my twitter account locked briefly. And I probably need to take a math course to really understand this. I'm lifting the definition for Benford's directly from the article itself:
“Benford’s law, or the first-digit law, is an observation about the frequency distribution of leading digits in many real-life sets of numerical data. The law states that in many naturally occurring collections of numbers, the leading digit is likely to be small.
For example, in sets that obey the law, the number 1 appears as the leading significant digit about 30% of the time, while 9 appears as the leading significant digit less than 5% of the time. If the digits were distributed uniformly, they would each occur about 11.1% of the time. Benford’s law also makes predictions about the distribution of second digits, third digits, digit combinations, and so on.”
I was concerned that this mathematical concept couldn't be used in court as President Trump has essentially started his legal battle today to contest this election where most media companies here have called the election for "President-Elect" Joe Biden & "Vice President-Elect" Kamala Harris. Well according to Wikipedia it has been admitted as evidence in court in America. So the President's team has that going for him at least, but again we shall see if it really holds any weight.
I wanted to share this visual aide a video found through the article that gives a very quick view of graphs that show both a normal distribution of votes from various parts of the country from Allegheny, PA to Chicago to Miami-Dade to Atlanta to Milwaukee. [VIDEO]
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