{"id":4995,"date":"2010-11-03T13:45:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T18:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4995"},"modified":"2010-11-03T13:47:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T18:47:48","slug":"the-dark-art-of-statistical-deception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/11\/03\/the-dark-art-of-statistical-deception\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Art of Statistical Deception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The New York Times<\/em> article <a title=\"The New York Times article\" href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/29\/the-dark-art-of-statistical-deception\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Dark Art of Statistical Deception<\/strong><\/a> By Tara Parker-Pope is an interview with the author of a new book.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The tendency of academics, politicians and pundits to generate such numerical falsehoods from data \u2014 and the tendency of the public to believe the results \u2014 is a phenomenon cleverly explored in the new book \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,9780670022168,00.html\"><strong>Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception<\/strong><\/a>,\u201d by Charles Seife.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a great explanation of the reasons why <a title=\"Greenberg's Law\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/category\/greenbergslawofthemedia\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Greenberg&#8217;s Law Of The Media<\/strong><\/a> is true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times article The Dark Art of Statistical Deception By Tara Parker-Pope is an interview with the author of a new book. The tendency of academics, politicians and pundits to generate such numerical falsehoods from data \u2014 and the tendency of the public to believe the results \u2014 is a phenomenon cleverly explored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-greenbergs-law-of-the-media","7":"category-stevegsposts","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4997,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions\/4997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}