{"id":42082,"date":"2014-01-15T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/medium_charles_wheelan-garbage_in_garbage_out-or_how_to_lie_with_bad_data\/"},"modified":"2014-01-15T18:00:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T18:00:16","slug":"medium_charles_wheelan-garbage_in_garbage_out-or_how_to_lie_with_bad_data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42082","title":{"rendered":"(Medium) Charles Wheelan&#8211;Garbage in, Garbage out&#8211;or how to Lie with Bad data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behind every important study there are good data that made the analysis possible. And behind every bad study . . . well, read on. People often speak about \u201clying with statistics.\u201d\u009d I would argue that some of the most egregious statistical mistakes involve lying with data; the statistical analysis is fine, but the data on which the calculations are performed are bogus or inappropriate. Here are some common examples of \u201cgarbage in, garbage out&#8230;.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/editors-picks\/96eba8845047\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind every important study there are good data that made the analysis possible. And behind every bad study . . . well, read on. People often speak about \u201clying with statistics.\u201d\u009d I would argue that some of the most egregious<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42082\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,175,168,133,89,117,129,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-media","category-philosophy","category-psychology","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}