Reply #45: It's my understanding that the alpha slope is not statistically significant

[kiwi_expat]

The reason that Febble is inclined to think that fraud is more likely to have occurred in the KERRY strongholds, is that such fraud, itself, would shift the alpha scatter plot points upwards and towards the middle - which is indeed where they are centered. She has explained it well somewhere - I can try to dig it out.