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cord-144221-ohorip57	Kapoor, Mudit	Authoritarian Governments Appear to Manipulate COVID Data	2020-07-19		.txt	text/plain	3198	194	56	First, data on COVID-19 cases and deaths from authoritarian governments show significantly less variation from a 7 day moving average. Second, data on COVID-19 deaths from authoritarian governments do not follow Benford's law, which describes the distribution of leading digits of numbers. Figure 2 plots the natural logarithm of the mean of the squared deviation of daily cases and deaths per million people, respectively, from the 7 day moving average against the EIU's overall democracy index score. We investigate whether governments manipulate data by testing whether the COVID-19 data on cumulative cases and deaths across different regimes (authoritarian, hybrid, flawed democracy, and full democracy) confirms to Benford's law. Natural logarithm of the Mean of squared deviations of observed daily cases and deaths per million people from a 7-day centered moving average, by EIU democracy index score.	./cache/cord-144221-ohorip57.txt	./txt/cord-144221-ohorip57.txt