{"id":63279,"date":"2017-05-26T11:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63279"},"modified":"2017-05-25T20:03:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T01:03:59","slug":"in-which-i-temporarily-lower-my-normally-rigid-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63279","title":{"rendered":"In Which I Temporarily Lower My Normally Rigid Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"

I take a dim view of most social “science” – and none is dimmer than the social “science” that the partisan fringe media toss around every from time to time as a palate-cleanser for the kool-aid drinkers in their respective audiences. \u00a0You remember them – “Study shows Liberals are Smarter” or “Conservatives are happier”, usually based on some very, er ,focused\u00a0<\/em>reading of data from\u00a0other\u00a0<\/em>studies that found a correlation that served the writer’s narrative.<\/p>\n

And make no mistake about it; I do in fact disdain this sort of thing.<\/p>\n

But sometimes, a story is too much fun not to dain…:<\/a><\/p>\n

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…while cautioning the gentle reader not to take it too, too, too seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I take a dim view of most social “science” – and none is dimmer than the social “science” that the partisan fringe media toss around every from time to time as a palate-cleanser for the kool-aid drinkers in their respective audiences. \u00a0You remember them – “Study shows Liberals are Smarter” or “Conservatives are happier”, usually […]<\/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-63279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63280,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63279\/revisions\/63280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}