For many real world data sets, what we actually observe is that the smaller digits are more likely, with 1 tending to be the most common digit.
probability theory
Science Corner: “It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it.”
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth”–surely a familiar quote to anyone who has spent time with Sherlock Holmes.
Faith and Reason, Part 5: Hume
David Hume (1711–1776) was a Scottish philosopher and historian well known for his arguments against traditional Christian theism that had a great impact on the Enlightenment.