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To: Norm Lenhart

“Is there a math/statistician here on FR that can compute the odds of that happening? a 6 vote rise in 4 years?”

Well, assuming voting range within 5 percent, that’s still around 5k voters, assuming that voting population is flat.

6/5k would be about a 10th of a percent. So you would have to go through 1000 elections to see a similar pattern.

Assuming 50 contested primaries over 4 years, that’s around 80 years for us to see this turn up in a primary election.


2,024 posted on 01/04/2012 12:09:47 AM PST by BenKenobi
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To: BenKenobi

Thanks! This is why Normie stays away from math whenever possible ;)

I’d have guessed a lot more/longer but still, that’s a pretty slim chance.


2,036 posted on 01/04/2012 12:39:10 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (Curse you, Norm Lenhart! Im slain, crumpled in a ditch by your obvious superiority - Humblegunner)
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