Comment on How an arcane statistical law could have prevented the Greek disasterComments−ColinWright14yThe Tim Harford article mentioned in this submission was submitted and discussed a couple of days ago:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3008848The similarly mentioned Ben Goldacre article was also submitted, but that got no discussion:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3007964A detailed discussion by Terry Tao of Benford's Law (and more) can be found here:http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/benfords-law-zipfs-...
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The Tim Harford article mentioned in this submission was submitted and discussed a couple of days ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3008848
The similarly mentioned Ben Goldacre article was also submitted, but that got no discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3007964
A detailed discussion by Terry Tao of Benford's Law (and more) can be found here:
http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/benfords-law-zipfs-...