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New study: "[Impact factor stats for] #OpenAccess journals adhere to #BenfordsLaw more closely than subscribed journals."
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10753145
(#paywalled)Benford's law is weird & fascinating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_lawI have no idea what to make of its appearance here.
The authors' take: "The rate of increase in [non-OA] journals is much higher than that of OA journals…[&] violations of Benford's Law are more frequent in [non-OA] journals compared to open [OA] journals.
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Still questioning #electionIntegrity around #election2020 or even #election2022? #Antiscience Hooey.
To all at #FoxNews and all the other Trumpian #socialmedia acolytes still using doubt and fear for political or financial advantage, while pushing us toward civil war: show us the #dataforensics #electionforensics' #datascience or stfu.
Here a blurb on #electiondata from wikipedia on #BenfordsLaw to tell you where you need to look.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law=
Still questioning #electionIntegrity around #election2020 or even #election2022? #Antiscience Hooey.
To all at #FoxNews and all the other Trumpian #socialmedia acolytes still using doubt and fear for political or financial advantage, while pushing us toward civil war: show us the #dataforensics #electionforensics' #datascience or stfu.
Here a blurb on #electiondata from wikipedia on #BenfordsLaw to tell you where you need to look.
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Benford's Law turns out to be a poor test for election fraud
"Why do Biden's votes not follow Benford's Law?"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=etx0k1nLn78
The distribution of values fails to meet the multiple orders of magnitude requirement for applying Benford's Law.
"Benford's Law and the Detection of Election Fraud"
Abstract: The proliferation of elections in even those states that are arguably anything but democratic has given rise to a focused interest on developing methods for detecting fraud in the official statistics of a state's election returns. Among these efforts are those that employ Benford's Law, with the most common application being an attempt to proclaim some election or another fraud free or replete with fraud. This essay, however, argues that, despite its apparent utility in looking at other phenomena, Benford's Law is problematical at best as a forensic tool when applied to elections....