{"id":129,"date":"2006-03-21T10:57:52","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T10:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/03\/21\/so-much-for-the-power-of-ignor\/"},"modified":"2006-03-21T10:57:52","modified_gmt":"2006-03-21T10:57:52","slug":"so-much-for-the-power-of-ignor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/03\/21\/so-much-for-the-power-of-ignor\/","title":{"rendered":"So Much for the Power of Ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, how&#8217;s my <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/03\/i_got_your_winning_ncaa_bracke.php\">winning NCAA strategy<\/a> going, you ask? Shut up, I reply.<\/p>\n<p>Well, OK. I&#8217;m currently in a four-way tie for tenth place in the ScienceBlogs pool (of 23) on Yahoo. Of course, unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/nosenada\/2006\/03\/swimming_in_the_prizefree_pool.php?utm_source=combined-feed&#038;utm_medium=rss\">some gloating people<\/a>, all four of my Final Four picks are still alive&#8230; I still don&#8217;t have much chance of catching <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/evolgen\/2006\/03\/youre_busting_my_bracket_brad.php\">the other people ahead of me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, for the record: Deliberate ignorance is a losing strategy. Hear that, Kansas and Ohio?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, how&#8217;s my winning NCAA strategy going, you ask? Shut up, I reply. Well, OK. I&#8217;m currently in a four-way tie for tenth place in the ScienceBlogs pool (of 23) on Yahoo. Of course, unlike some gloating people, all four of my Final Four picks are still alive&#8230; I still don&#8217;t have much chance of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/03\/21\/so-much-for-the-power-of-ignor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So Much for the Power of Ignorance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-war_on_science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}