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Auditors don't need a confession — they need the leading digits. When real-world data follows Hey everyone, in this video I talk to you about Ever wonder why so many real‑world numbers begin with the digit 1? From a smudge on Simon Newcomb's logarithm tables ... UPDATE 11-11-2020 Hi all, this video is currently being shared in relation to the 2020 USA election. Here's a dataset consisting of numbers. The digit 1 appears as the first digit nearly 30% of the time. Meanwhile, the digit 9 shows ... Take any big pile of real-world numbers — country populations, river lengths, a year of bank transactions — Why number 1 is the "leading digit" more often than you may expect? More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ See us test ... The beginning of a new series on anomaly detection, this video looks at a probabilistic way of viewing this problem - People lie. Numbers don't. Hidden inside everyday data is a strange Open a spreadsheet of real numbers, populations, prices, physical constants,