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This is John Bachelor, conversation

with Professor Abraham Weiner of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania,

statistician, a teacher of statistics, writing a tablet magazine, identifies indicators that that is noticeable to statisticians. They are too balanced, they're too perfect.

And the professor tells a story of Mendelssohn, the great scientist who wanted his

first insight about how we get genes DNA from different parents.

Too Perfect was the version that he produced.

He wanted it perfectly.

That is in how statistics works.

Listen to the professor, he explains. This doesn't prove, but it does suggest that what we're

looking at from the Hamas Health Ministry are contrived arbitrary made up statistics about men, women, and

children casualties.

More to come.

That's exactly right. This is one of the many ways that fraud appears. In fact, I can reach back into history.

There was a great scientist named Mendel who discovered the way genes combined and we got one gene from one parent and one gene from the other and he created this chart

The very very important biological chart in genetics which show the proportion and in what we call equilibrium of

combinations of genes and it would be 50% 25% for the different combinations and

in the data set it was too perfect. It was 50% exactly, 25% exactly, and 25% exactly in the other category. And the great statistician Ari Fisher, he noticed this and basically he just he basically proved that Mendel while right in his science was overzealous. He wanted to perfect a result and he created charts with not enough variation.

And this has been a longstanding observation in data analysis.

When there isn't enough variation where there should be more,

that is a tip-off that something has been done to manipulate the data.

It doesn't tell you how necessarily.

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