A note on Abraham Lincoln in probability
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Bernard Grofman
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Article
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1979
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Springer US
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English
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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.