Teaching Comparative Government and Politics

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Politics and statistics and Iran

Ken Halla, who posts wonderful and useful things on US Government Teachers Blog, pointed out that Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right blog, for which he made a name during last fall's US election, has posted a number of interesting items about the Iranian election.

"The Ayatollah's Flawed Logic"
"Iranian Leadership Split On Response"
"Karroubi's Unlucky 7's?"
"Unconvincing (to me) Use of Benford's Law to Demonstrate Election Fraud in Iran"
"Ahmadinejad's Rural Votes"
"If He Did It"
"Recount in Iran?"
"Polling Predicted Intimidation -- and Not Necessarily Ahmadinejad's Victory"
"Iran Does Have Some Fishy Numbers"
"Iranian Election Results by Province"
"Statistical Report Purporting to Show Rigged Iranian Election Is Flawed"
"Polling and Voting in Iran's Friday Election"

Thanks, Ken.

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