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A note on Abraham Lincoln in probabilityland

✍ Scribed by Bernard Grofman

Book ID
104638062
Publisher
Springer US
Year
1979
Tongue
English
Weight
124 KB
Volume
11
Category
Article
ISSN
0040-5833

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Abraham Lincoln's dictum that "you may fool all of the people some of the time; and some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time", is interpreted in terms of a simple binomial model, and potential ambiguities in Lincoln's assertion are clarified.

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