{"id":43965,"date":"2020-10-09T01:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=43965"},"modified":"2020-10-08T09:11:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T13:11:47","slug":"qotd-how-to-analyze-complex-multivariate-systems-for-the-popular-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/10\/09\/qotd-how-to-analyze-complex-multivariate-systems-for-the-popular-press\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: How to analyze complex multivariate systems for the popular press"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 35px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Choose a complex and chaotic system that is characterized by thousands or millions of variables changing simultaneously (e.g. climate, the US economy)<\/li>\n<li>Pick one single output variable to summarize the workings of that system (e.g. temperature, GDP)<\/li>\n<li>Blame (or credit) any changes to your selected output variable on one single pet variable (e.g. capitalism, a President from the other party)<\/li>\n<li>Pick a news outlet aligned with your political tribe and send them a press release<\/li>\n<li>Done! You are now a famous scientist. Congratulations.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Warren Meyer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyoteblog.com\/coyote_blog\/2018\/06\/modern-guide-to-analyzing-complex-multivariate-systems.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Modern Guide to Analyzing Complex Multivariate Systems&#8221;, <em>Coyote Blog<\/em><\/a>, 2018-06-25.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choose a complex and chaotic system that is characterized by thousands or millions of variables changing simultaneously (e.g. climate, the US economy) Pick one single output variable to summarize the workings of that system (e.g. temperature, GDP) Blame (or credit) any changes to your selected output variable on one single pet variable (e.g. capitalism, a [&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":[28,41,16],"tags":[39,213,51,290,101],"class_list":["post-43965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-quotations","category-science","tag-junkscience","tag-newspapers","tag-pr","tag-statistics","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-br7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43965","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=43965"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60786,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43965\/revisions\/60786"}],"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=43965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}