I’m not good at math, but people keep passing this chart around in reddit-logo

But I keep seeing people in the comments debating whether this is actually “impossible” or not, using stats terms I’m not familiar with. Also idk the source of this graph so maybe it’s bs.

  • Vampire [any]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    21
    ·
    edit-2
    4 months ago

    I see it, give me a minute to edit the comment up

    Basically the problem is the divisions are too clean.

    If 10,058,774 votes were divided naturally, you would expect something like candidate A gets 51.19817%, but he got 51.20000%. This would happen if someone said “Make 51.2% of the votes be for Maduro”


    10058774 × 0.512 = 5150092.28, or to the nearest whole number 5,150,092

    10058774 × 0.442 = 4445978.10 or to the nearest whole number 4,445,978

    10058774 × 0.046 = 462703.604, or to the nearest whole number 462,704