{"id":2700,"date":"2004-03-30T07:25:50","date_gmt":"2004-03-30T07:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=2700"},"modified":"2004-03-30T07:25:50","modified_gmt":"2004-03-30T07:25:50","slug":"dumb-statistics-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=2700","title":{"rendered":"(DUMB) STATISTICS 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, class.  As an exercise, please comment on the fundamental statistical flaw in <a href=\"http:\/\/desmoinesregister.com\/news\/stories\/c4780927\/23930974.html\">these two short paragraphs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Several national studies done over the past decade show a direct link between youngsters&#8217; reading abilities and well-staffed libraries with up-to-date materials.<\/p>\n<p>Three studies released in 2000 showed that students in schools with well-maintained library collections and trained library staffs performed better on standardized tests, especially reading.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Excellent job, class.  Yes, it is <i>very<\/i> obvious that Erin Jordan has never taken statistics.  But, you&#8217;ll be surprised at how often you find the correlation-causation error in the popular press.  And, no, I&#8217;m not aware of any negative correlation between IQ and propensity to become a reporter.  That&#8217;d make a good research project.  Class dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, class. As an exercise, please comment on the fundamental statistical flaw in these two short paragraphs. Several national studies done over the past decade show a direct link between youngsters&#8217; reading abilities and well-staffed libraries with up-to-date materials. Three studies released in 2000 showed that students in schools with well-maintained library collections and trained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}