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There are plenty of qualified would-be editors ready to monitor numbers in the news, judging from the response to last week's column. I asked Numbers Guy readers to take a quiz , which was adapted from one used by Richard Holden, a former Wall Street Journal editor who teaches journalists how to handle numbers in their articles. As of Thursday, nearly 300 of you had written in.
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Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science column from the Guardian
James Ball sent me the data for the Russian election vote counts this morning and asked me to test whether it deviates from Benford’s law, a test that can give a hint at whether numbers are the product of fraud. Posted below is my analysis, and also a check for last digit preference, which is another method for spotting sneakiness. Read the rest of this entry »
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