{"id":11729,"date":"2012-05-23T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11729"},"modified":"2012-05-23T03:00:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T08:00:17","slug":"so-scientific-its-unscientific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11729","title":{"rendered":"So Scientific it&#039;s Unscientific!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2012\/05\/21\/willfull-ignorance-about-statistics-in-government\/\">Willfull Ignorance about Statistics in Government<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The survey isn&#8217;t cost effective, the data gathered isn&#8217;t genuinely useful according to Representative Webster, because <em>it&#8217;s not a scientific survey<\/em>. Why isn&#8217;t it a scientific survey? Because it&#8217;s <em>random<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willfull Ignorance about Statistics in Government The survey isn&#8217;t cost effective, the data gathered isn&#8217;t genuinely useful according to Representative Webster, because it&#8217;s not a scientific survey. Why isn&#8217;t it a scientific survey? Because it&#8217;s random.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-math","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}