The numbers behind the story
The Frisconian
San FranciscoData as of October 6, 2026
The donation-ban waivers, counted every reasonable way
The story counted 16 waivers in 2025, against 5 and 4 in the two years before. Here are 32 ways to make that comparison, and what each one shows.
The story, October 14, 2026: San Francisco waived its ban on officials seeking donations 16 times in 2025.
How to read this page
- Each row is one way to count the same thing. We fixed the choices before we ran them, and every combination is here.
- The dot is the estimate. For a ratio, 1 means no change and 2 means twice as many. For a difference in points, 0 means no change.
- The bar is the range the true value most likely falls in (95%).
- The p-value says how often a gap this big would turn up by chance alone, if nothing had changed. Below 0.05 is a common line, not a law.
- Read the pattern across the rows. One row, picked alone, can be made to say almost anything.
How this was counted
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