{"id":1033,"date":"2022-05-27T15:37:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T21:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2022-05-27T15:38:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T21:38:28","slug":"statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/?p=1033","title":{"rendered":"Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I don&#8217;t ever want to play the part<\/p><p>Of a statistic on a government chart<\/p><cite>The Police -1981<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tough luck, you are a statistic on a government chart, just hope you&#8217;re in the upper part of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m taking a statistics class and my eyes are crossing. If your selling point to get people to acquire knowledge is that you will now have a better idea of the probability of heads vs tails of 10 coins being flipped 5 times you really need a better point. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then what&#8217;s with this Bayes Rule and its comparison to cancer and false vs positive tests. I mean we&#8217;re dealing with something so abstract why bring a deadly disease into it? You want my attention? Start showing me how this relates to something I wouldn&#8217;t mind running across, like Vegas gambling odds on various games or how to handicap the ponies given their previous record damnit, something I may actually give a flying flip about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t ever want to play the part Of a statistic on a government chart The Police -1981 Tough luck, you are a statistic on a government chart, just hope you&#8217;re in the upper part of it. I&#8217;m taking a statistics class and my eyes are crossing. If your selling point to get people to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}