{"id":1969,"date":"2008-06-11T11:56:29","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T18:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1969"},"modified":"2008-06-11T11:56:29","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T18:56:29","slug":"lies-damn-lies-and-new-york-times-graphics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/06\/11\/lies-damn-lies-and-new-york-times-graphics\/","title":{"rendered":"Lies, Damn Lies, and New York Times Graphics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has a policy on <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=www-nc.nytimes.com\/2006\/07\/30\/opinion\/30publiceditor.html&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\">anonymous sources<\/a>.  Great!  But do they have a policy on statistics?  They certainly need it.  I mean, take a look at the graphic from an article on <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=www-nc.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/10\/technology\/10phone.html&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\">women and smart phones<\/a>:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI mean, sure the numbers on the right hand side could be used to support the caption &#8220;women are more concerned with price, size and design&#8221; (and keyboards by their same reasoning) but the hell if I&#8217;m going to believe that without knowing what a reasonable estimate of the margin of error is in the survey being reported on.  I mean, without such data, the graphic displayed has absolutely no content (and, if the margin of error is plus or minus three your still damn safe ignoring the results.)  How can a major media outlet, and one that is constantly bashed as being intellectually elitist, get away with this kind of garbage?  (Oh right they&#8217;re entertainment, and numbers are only entertaining if you don&#8217;t have to actually think about what they mean.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has a policy on anonymous sources. Great! But do they have a policy on statistics? They certainly need it. I mean, take a look at the graphic from an article on women and smart phones:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics-basterdizations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}