{"id":2669,"date":"2009-07-09T13:50:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T11:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2009-07-09T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T11:50:08","slug":"p%e2%89%a40-0069-in-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2009\/07\/p%e2%89%a40-0069-in-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"P\u00e2\u2030\u00a40.0069 in election results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too many &#8220;7&#8221; digits <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0906.2789\">were found for candidate A<\/a> in a study of the presidential election results.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This method is closely related to Benford&#8217;s Law. A highly significant (p ~ 0.0007) excess of vote counts for candidate K that start with the digit 7 is found (41 observed, 21.2&#8211;22 expected). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have to admit that I heard for the first time of the <a href=\"http:\/\/mathworld.wolfram.com\/BenfordsLaw.html\">Newcomb-Benford&#8217;s Law<\/a> (NBL)&#8230;<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 06.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too many &#8220;7&#8221; digits were found for candidate A in a study of the presidential election results. This method is closely related to Benford&#8217;s Law. A highly significant (p ~ 0.0007) excess of vote counts for candidate K that start with the digit 7 is found (41 observed, 21.2&#8211;22 expected). I have to admit that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2009\/07\/p%e2%89%a40-0069-in-election-results\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">P\u00e2\u2030\u00a40.0069 in election results<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2529],"class_list":["post-2669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-software","tag-newcomb-benfords-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2693,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions\/2693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}