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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    4 months ago

    The spreadsheet software is configured to show extra zeros (significant digits, trailing zeros) or somebody typed in those zeros for padding (no idea if done by a person manually or spreadsheet formal in excel, intentionally or not).

    Either way, you have the raw numbers on the left so you can do the math and see 4,445,978 / 10,058,774 = 0.4419999893.

    No. This is wrong. Don’t confuse people. To give five decimal places after the number of percentage points it’s 51.20000% etc.

    In each of the three cases, it is within one vote of the exact 51.2%, 44.2%, 4.6%. It couldn’t be more on-the-button without fractional votes, where you chop Venezuelans up into bits and take the bits to the polling booth.