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Bezieht man sich auf Aussagen von W. Fellers klassischem Werk ``An introduction to probability theory and its applications'', so begeht man leicht einen Fehler, der in dieser Art noch nicht aufgezeigt wurde.   F\u00fcr einen Lehrenden w\u00e4re es w\u00fcnschenswert, wenn es neben einem exakten mathematischen Beweis auch noch eine heuristisch leicht nachvollziehbare Erkl\u00e4rung f\u00fcr das Benfordsche Gesetz g\u00e4be, denn eine richtige, allgemeing\u00fcltige Erkl\u00e4rung eines allgemeinen Prinzips ist oftmals mehr Wert als ein detailliertes formales Argument. Die Hoffnung, eine kurze Ableitung des Gesetzes zu erhalten, erscheint jedoch vergeblich. Um dies zu untermauern, wird die Aussage untersucht, dass ``eine positive Zufallsvariable \\(X\\) dem BL genau dann folgt, wenn \\(\\log_{10} X\\) gleichm\u00e4\u00dfig mod\\,1 verteilt ist'' (1). Dies wird oft freim\u00fctig uminterpretiert zur Aussage: ``Ist die Streuung einer Zufallsvariablen \\(X\\) sehr gro\u00df, dann ist \\(\\log_{10} X\\) n\u00e4herungsweise gleichm\u00e4\u00dfig mod\\,1 verteilt'' (2). Die Folgerung aus (1) und (2) ist, dass alle Zufallsvariablen mit gro\u00dfer Streuung n\u00e4herungsweise dem BL folgen. Dies klingt sehr \u00fcberzeugend. Aussage (2) ist aber falsch, wie mit Hilfe der Kolmogorov-Smirnov-Distanz gezeigt wird. Ein weiterer Grund f\u00fcr die Langlebigkeit dieses Irrtums ist die Aussage, ``dass jede Zufallsvariable \\(X\\) mit sehr gro\u00dfer Streuung n\u00e4herungsweise gleichm\u00e4\u00dfig mod\\,1 verteilt ist'' (3). (3) impliziert aber nicht (2) und ist nicht dazu geeignet, das BL zu begr\u00fcnden. Eine falsche Auffassung ist auch die, dass eine gro\u00dfe Streuung bzw. logarithmische Streuung automatisch eine bessere \u00dcbereinstimmung mit dem BL liefert. 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