{"id":3899,"date":"2018-12-10T19:47:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T03:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3899"},"modified":"2018-12-10T19:55:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T03:55:51","slug":"junk-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3899","title":{"rendered":"Junk Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article alarmingly titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/article\/Millennials-flat-earth-theory-two-thirds-study-12813321.php\">Study: Only two-thirds of Millennials fully believe the Earth is round<\/a> is junk news. Why? Just look at the question and the choices for answers offered:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do you believe that the world is round or flat?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have always believed the world is round<\/li>\n<li>I always thought the world is round, but more recently I am skeptical\/have doubts<\/li>\n<li>I always thought the world is flat, but more recently I am skeptical\/have doubts<\/li>\n<li>I have always believed the world is flat<\/li>\n<li>Other\/Not sure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>How would someone who has a good childhood memory (such as yours truly) answer this question? &#8220;Other\/not sure&#8221; in my case: when I was a young child, I believed the Earth to be flat, because to such a child it obviously does appear to be so. Later on, I learned otherwise, then learned the mountains of evidence that indicate so.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the only accurate answer available. I have not <em>always<\/em> believed the world to be round, I have <em>certainly not<\/em> become skeptical the earth is round recently, I have not <em>recently<\/em> become skeptical the world is flat, and I have <em>certainly not<\/em> always believed the world is flat. It&#8217;s an elementary process of elimination (as arriving at any &#8220;other&#8221; category must be). I doubt I&#8217;m the only one who arrived at &#8220;other\/not sure&#8221; this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article alarmingly titled Study: Only two-thirds of Millennials fully believe the Earth is round is junk news. Why? Just look at the question and the choices for answers offered: Do you believe that the world is round or flat? I have always believed the world is round I always thought the world is round, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}