{"id":5579,"date":"2019-10-01T15:23:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T15:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=5579"},"modified":"2019-10-01T15:23:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T15:23:07","slug":"ask-is-this-a-big-number-lots-of-statistics-are-presented-as-bald-numbers-x-people-have-died-out-of-how-many-if-25-people-in-a-population-of-50-have-died-of-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=5579","title":{"rendered":"Ask, \u201cis this a big number?\u201d Lots of statistics are presented as bald numbers: \u201cX people have died\u201d Out of how many? If 25 people in a population of 50 have died of cancer, that\u2019s awful Out of a population of 50 million? That\u2019s a statistical miracle https:\/\/t.co\/DI74GNEwSA https:\/\/t.co\/9yDVEqxilU"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ask, \u201cis this a big number?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lots of statistics are presented as bald numbers: \u201cX people have died\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Out of how many?<\/p>\n<p>If 25 people in a population of 50 have died of cancer, that\u2019s awful<\/p>\n<p>Out of a population of 50 million? That\u2019s a statistical miracle<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DI74GNEwSA\">https:\/\/t.co\/DI74GNEwSA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9yDVEqxilU\">pic.twitter.com\/9yDVEqxilU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Warren Myers ?? (@warrenmyers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers\/status\/1179053614465204224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>October 01, 2019 at 11:21AM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask, \u201cis this a big number?\u201d Lots of statistics are presented as bald numbers: \u201cX people have died\u201d Out of how many? If 25 people in a population of 50 have died of cancer, that\u2019s awful Out of a population of 50 million? That\u2019s a statistical miraclehttps:\/\/t.co\/DI74GNEwSA pic.twitter.com\/9yDVEqxilU &mdash; Warren Myers ?? (@warrenmyers) October 1, &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=5579\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ask, \u201cis this a big number?\u201d Lots of statistics are presented as bald numbers: \u201cX people have died\u201d Out of how many? If 25 people in a population of 50 have died of cancer, that\u2019s awful Out of a population of 50 million? That\u2019s a statistical miracle https:\/\/t.co\/DI74GNEwSA https:\/\/t.co\/9yDVEqxilU<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-5579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5580,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5579\/revisions\/5580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5579"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=5579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}