{"id":306,"date":"2008-05-14T03:46:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T08:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/306"},"modified":"2008-05-14T03:46:31","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T08:46:31","slug":"sweet-sweet-sampling-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/306","title":{"rendered":"Sweet, Sweet Sampling Error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stat.columbia.edu\/~cook\/movabletype\/archives\/2008\/05\/doing_the_candy.html\">The candy weighing demonstration, or, the unwisdom of crowds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get some candies of different sizes and shapes and put them in a bag.  Have students estimate the mass of the ensemble by choosing 5 candies, finding their average mass, and multiplying by the number of candies.  Their estimate will be too large because their sampling will be biased toward the larger candies.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/godplaysdice.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/sampling-is-tricky.html\">God Plays Dice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The candy weighing demonstration, or, the unwisdom of crowds Get some candies of different sizes and shapes and put them in a bag. Have students estimate the mass of the ensemble by choosing 5 candies, finding their average mass, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/306\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","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=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}