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Originally Posted by The Bad Astronomer
With only 100 Senators divided into 12 bins, you expect 8.5 Senators per bin (and if they would only let me choose which ones to cut in half...). If births are random, then the standard deviation you expect in each bin is the square root of the number in the bin. Sqrt(8.5) is roughly 3.
Now, it's not too unlikely to get fluctuations of 3 standard deviations, though 2 is more likely (of course). So you might see as few as 2 Senators in a bin, or as many as 14. In reality, getting no Senators in one astrological sign wouldn't surprise me too much. Unusual, yes; impossible, of course not.
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Actually my comments in that direction were more than tongue in cheek.
But the refutation is much easier. Just click back 'up' the heirarchy and check the stats for the House as opposed to the Senate. Leo is then better represented in the larger sample space.
If the statistics wouldn't have worked out, one would have to take action. Something like (I don't know)
writing your congressperson! 