One condition of Benford's Law is that
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It tends to be most accurate when values are distributed across multiple orders of magnitude
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If you make a list of consecutive numbers covering a large range (e.g. from 1 to 999) and count how many start with 1, 2, 3, etc. you'll find that there are an equal quantity starting with each digit (111, in this example). So wouldn't you expect that a list of measurements or values would have this same uniform distribution?
I would.