[OC] Birth months of FIFA World Cup players. The top three are January, February and March, possibly due to the "Relative age effect"Frog23 t1_iymns43 wrote
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Benford's law doesn't apply here. It is (best) for numerical values that is spanning multiple orders of magnitude. But instead we have a fixed set of values (Jan-Dec) with no positional notation. If we were to convert the month to their numerical values and try to apply Benford' law, we would need to group the numbers for January, October, November and December to the groups of values starting with 1. That would be a bit more "benfordy", but really overshoot in other direction.
Individual_Divide333 t1_iympr1x wrote
Ahhhhh totally makes sense. Thank you for deepening my understanding of this cool phenomenon.
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