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A preliminary statistical analysis of Philadelphia voting data is showing that the vote totals are “as if someone flipped a coin 100 times and got heads every time.” (thenationalpulse.com)
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– Cakes4077 3 points ago +3 / -0

For those who are interested, it’s called a binomial distribution. What it is analogous to is flipping a coin, which may not be a fair coin, some number of times and counting the number of heads that occurs. So, if I flipped a fair coin twice and counted the number of heads, the chance of getting 0 heads is 25%, chance of 1 is 50%, and chance of 2 is 25%.

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