{"id":13,"date":"2008-02-19T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inguz.net\/?p=13"},"modified":"2008-02-19T15:13:51","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T20:13:51","slug":"on-the-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inguz.net\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"On the train"},"content":{"rendered":"

I overheard a conversation on the train today. One memorable quote was,<\/p>\n

“Science shouldn’t mess with things. Especially things that we want pretty.”<\/p>\n

While listening, I couldn’t help but reflect on people tendency to pull out unverifiable statistics to try and prove their point. I think I’ve even done it in the past. Sometimes I think our imaginations get the better of us.<\/p>\n

Edit: This is actually from Saturday but I wasn’t able to post until today. I assumed that it would have saved the creation date and not the ‘post’ date. I should have known better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I overheard a conversation on the train today. One memorable quote was, “Science shouldn’t mess with things. Especially things that we want pretty.” While listening, I couldn’t help but reflect on people tendency to pull out unverifiable statistics to try and prove their point. I think I’ve even done it in the past. Sometimes I … <\/p>\n

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