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iceweasel6/22/2009 4:37:07 am PDT

re: #201 iceweasel

That WaPo article on the analysis of the numbers continues to grab me. It’s just so cool. Even before the council admitted there were problems in 50 cities and two provinces, here’s what those 2 doctoral candidates had concluded:

Each of these two tests provides strong evidence that the numbers released by Iran’s Ministry of the Interior were manipulated. But taken together, they leave very little room for reasonable doubt. The probability that a fair election would produce both too few non-adjacent digits and the suspicious deviations in last-digit frequencies described earlier is less than .005. In other words, a bet that the numbers are clean is a one in two-hundred long shot.