{"id":2134,"date":"2010-08-03T11:20:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T15:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ispeculate.wpmudev.host\/main\/?p=2134"},"modified":"2010-08-03T11:20:08","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T15:20:08","slug":"why-we-should-learn-the-language-of-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/08\/03\/why-we-should-learn-the-language-of-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Should Learn the Language of Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Of course, as anyone with any exposure to statistics knows, correlation is not causation. And individual stories don\u2019t prove anything; when you examine data on the millions of vaccinated kids, even the correlation vanishes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2010\/04\/st_thompson_statistics\/\">Clive Thompson on Why We Should Learn the Language of Data<\/a> via Derek Hoven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, as anyone with any exposure to statistics knows, correlation is not causation. And individual stories don\u2019t prove anything; when you examine data on the millions of vaccinated kids, even the correlation vanishes. From\u00a0Clive Thompson on Why We Should Learn the Language of Data via Derek Hoven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,39,76,89,118,150],"class_list":["post-2134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-business","tag-crap","tag-growth","tag-injustice","tag-politics","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}