{"id":1025,"date":"2008-11-19T04:50:22","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T09:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2008-11-19T04:50:22","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T09:50:22","slug":"how-not-to-cook-the-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1025","title":{"rendered":"How (not) to Cook the Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A look at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benford's_law\">Benford&#8217;s Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In certain numerical data sets, the leading digit is most likely to be a &#8220;1,&#8221; with each succeeding number being less likely.  It can be used to see if someone unaware of this has manufactured data.<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/O8N26edbqLM?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/O8N26edbqLM?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A look at Benford&#8217;s Law. In certain numerical data sets, the leading digit is most likely to be a &#8220;1,&#8221; with each succeeding number being less likely. It can be used to see if someone unaware of this has manufactured &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1025\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}