{"id":75038,"date":"2012-11-22T01:11:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T09:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=19142"},"modified":"2012-11-22T01:11:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T09:11:41","slug":"open-thread-11-22-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/22\/open-thread-11-22-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread, 11-22-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/11\/RaccoonLion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19143\" title=\"RaccoonLion\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/11\/RaccoonLion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"331\" \/><\/a>If you aren&#8217;t too stuffed, ask! I plan to get my simultaneous review of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/159420411X\/geneexpressio-20\">The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don&#8217;t<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/046502324X\/geneexpressio-20\">Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society<\/a>\u00a0up over the holiday weekend, but I&#8217;m going to be focused on other things besides the blog obviously. That being said, to be frank I don&#8217;t personally feel that the regular reader of this weblog would get much value from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/159420411X\/geneexpressio-20\">The Signal and the Noise<\/a> (Nate Silver interviews\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/\">Robin Hanson<\/a>. I didn&#8217;t need to read his book to be aware of Robin Hanson&#8217;s ideas, he quite freely shares them to all curiosity seekers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/\">on the internet<\/a> and in person).\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/046502324X\/geneexpressio-20\">Uncontrolled<\/a>\u00a0adds more value in my opinion because experiments in social science are more difficult, and probably more genuinely ground-breaking (if less sexy), than statistical inference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you aren&#8217;t too stuffed, ask! I plan to get my simultaneous review of The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don&#8217;t and Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society\u00a0up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}