Do the numbers exhibit Benfords Law?
No. Benford’s Law describes an over-representation of lower values (in particular ‘1’) for the leading digit in many real-life data sets. Benford’s Law can be observed for numbers that are distributed logarithmically, which is the case for many numbers that humans deal with, but not for the true random numbers generated by RANDOM.ORG. Like a die, RANDOM.ORG generates numbers that are uniformly distributed (see question 2.7). For that reason, there is no over-representation of leading digits in the lower ranges. If you are not convinced, try rolling a normal six-sided die many times and write down the results. You won’t observe Benford’s Law on the values you get.
