Debunking Election Fraud Claims – Interactive Data Viz and Simulations

What it does

How a viral misunderstanding of basic statistics spawned a new conspiracy subculture. An interactive analysis of election data claims.

Now let's make things more interesting. Instead of flipping one coin, let's flip four coins at once. Can you predict what percentage will be heads? With more coins, we start to see patterns emerge. The results become more predictable, even though each individual coin flip is still random. This is the beginning of understanding the Law of Large Numbers. Let's do ten coins now. How many will be heads. Put in your guess: I get the feeling you feel like you can win more often than you have, so I'll make it easy for you. I'll run 20 games at once, and put them on a chart for you, and this time you get to pick how many coins are tossed. You only need to be correct within a 10% window. Sorry,I…from sullivan.zip

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi HN! I built this after seeing several references to Election Truth Alliance on social media, and after reading their analysis, I just couldn't get the problems I saw in it out of my head. So I downloaded the data, and rebuilt their full analysis from scratch. Their critical error is a simple misunderstanding of…

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