07-February-2008, 08:16 PM
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Bad math in the media
Dead heat: Obama and Clinton split the Syracuse vote 50-50
Quote:
In the city of Syracuse, the strangest thing happened in Tuesday's Democratic presidential primary.
Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama received the exact same number of votes, according to unofficial Board of Election results.
Clinton: 6,001.
Obama: 6,001.
"Wow, that is odd," said Jay Biba, Clinton's Central New York campaign coordinator. "I never heard of that in my life."
The odds of Clinton and Obama tying were less than one in 1 million, said Syracuse University mathematics Professor Hyune-Ju Kim.
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Seems to be there's either a math professor who should be fired for not knowing probability or a reporter who should be fired for misquoting. (See the comments for some more reasonable estimates.)
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