{"id":4658,"date":"2010-05-03T07:20:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T07:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/03\/links-for-2010-05-03\/"},"modified":"2010-05-03T07:20:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T07:20:43","slug":"links-for-2010-05-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/03\/links-for-2010-05-03\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2010-05-03"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2010\/04\/st_thompson_statistics\/\">Clive Thompson on Why We Should Learn the Language of Data | Magazine<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Statistics is hard. But that&#8217;s not just an issue of individual understanding; it&#8217;s also becoming one of the nation&#8217;s biggest political problems. We live in a world where the thorniest policy issues increasingly boil down to arguments over what the data mean. If you don&#8217;t understand statistics, you don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on &#8212; and you can&#8217;t tell when you&#8217;re being lied to. Statistics should now be a core part of general education. 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But that&#8217;s not just an issue of individual understanding; it&#8217;s also becoming one of the nation&#8217;s biggest political problems. We live in a world where the thorniest policy issues increasingly boil down to arguments over what the data mean.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/03\/links-for-2010-05-03\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2010-05-03<\/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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658","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=4658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}