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What's up with people saying the results of the Venezuelan elections are "statically impossible"? (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 months ago by Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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I'm not good at math, but people keep passing this chart around in reddit-logo

But I keep seeing people in the comments debating whether this is actually "impossible" or not, using stats terms I'm not familiar with. Also idk the source of this graph so maybe it's bs.

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[–] rhubarb@hexbear.net 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Those numbers of votes are almost definitely wrong and calculated from the percentages instead of the other way around. It doesn't necessarily mean the percentages are fake, but someone at some point did fuck up.