Comments on: The Iranian Election http://www.realityprime.com/articles/the-iranian-election Advanced Technology Research Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:57:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: JB http://www.realityprime.com/articles/the-iranian-election/comment-page-1#comment-18608 JB Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:18:31 +0000 http://www.realityprime.com/?p=310#comment-18608 Here's another statistical take that hints at fraud, this time focused on the most-significant digit: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227144.000-statistics-hint-at-fraud-in-iranian-election.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law "Benford's law, also called the first-digit law, states that in lists of numbers from many (but not all) real-life sources of data, the leading digit is distributed in a specific, non-uniform way. According to this law, the first digit is 1 almost one third of the time, and larger digits occur as the leading digit with lower and lower frequency, to the point where 9 as a first digit occurs less than one time in twenty." Here’s another statistical take that hints at fraud, this time focused on the most-significant digit:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227144.000-statistics-hint-at-fraud-in-iranian-election.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
“Benford’s law, also called the first-digit law, states that in lists of numbers from many (but not all) real-life sources of data, the leading digit is distributed in a specific, non-uniform way. According to this law, the first digit is 1 almost one third of the time, and larger digits occur as the leading digit with lower and lower frequency, to the point where 9 as a first digit occurs less than one time in twenty.”

]]> By: Niraj http://www.realityprime.com/articles/the-iranian-election/comment-page-1#comment-18486 Niraj Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:41:30 +0000 http://www.realityprime.com/?p=310#comment-18486 It seems like the media loves to hype Twitter all the time now solely because it benefits them to do so, to the point that it's gotten quite annoying. Thanks for posting this, it makes some very interesting points! Much more informative than some of the "news" about Iran on most news sites right now. It seems like the media loves to hype Twitter all the time now solely because it benefits them to do so, to the point that it’s gotten quite annoying.

Thanks for posting this, it makes some very interesting points! Much more informative than some of the “news” about Iran on most news sites right now.

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