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    Gabriele Taylor was my undergraduate philosophy tutor at St Anne’s College, Oxford from 1989-1992. I remember her as an incisive…

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“Benford’s law” and the election results

In right-wing crazy land, one of the "ideas" floating around is that Benford's Law shows that there's something suspicious about the electoral results in Chicago for Biden.  This is a nice, patient explanation of why this is all nonsense, as one might have suspected:

 

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