some interesting statistical analyses:
The Devil is in the Digits
Combining findings at the Province and County Level from Iran’s Election
shorter: some massaging of the returns are likely, but it isn’t constructed out of thin air. a recent episode of the science show radiolab illustrated that a statistician can easily distinguish a record for random coin tosses from a human generated “random” list of heads or tails. people aren’t good at generating the variance in outcome.
