{"id":36674,"date":"2018-10-26T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36674"},"modified":"2018-10-06T10:39:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T14:39:18","slug":"qotd-mis-using-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/10\/26\/qotd-mis-using-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Mis-using statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>You\u2019re like that crazy hobo on the subway demanding everyone justify the moon ferrets. But moon ferrets aren\u2019t real, so why waste a bunch of time explaining that to a stinky hobo. But I\u2019ll try, because I\u2019m a retired accountant, and when people like you try to use stats it is like watching a monkey humping a football. So amusing, but kind of sad.<\/p>\n<p>Larry Correia, <a href=\"http:\/\/monsterhunternation.com\/2016\/12\/13\/run-forrest-run\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Run Forrest Run!&#8221;, <em>Monster Hunter Nation<\/em><\/a>, 2014-11-05.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019re like that crazy hobo on the subway demanding everyone justify the moon ferrets. But moon ferrets aren\u2019t real, so why waste a bunch of time explaining that to a stinky hobo. But I\u2019ll try, because I\u2019m a retired accountant, and when people like you try to use stats it is like watching a monkey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,41],"tags":[58,290],"class_list":["post-36674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-internet","tag-statistics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9xw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36675,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36674\/revisions\/36675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}