🔗 The special trick that helps identify dodgy stats | Ben Goldacre | Comment is free | The Guardian
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Ben Goldacre: Using Benford's law, forensic statisticians can spot suspicious patterns in the raw numbers, and estimate the chances figures have been tampered with