{"id":9,"date":"2007-03-15T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T23:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2007-03-15T15:00:23","modified_gmt":"2007-03-15T23:00:23","slug":"don-boudreaux-rags-on-the-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/don-boudreaux-rags-on-the-french\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Boudreaux rags on the French"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, he writes an article called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2007\/0315\/p09s02-coop.html\">Statistics can mislead as easily as they can enlighten<\/a>&#8221; published in CSM.  It points out a useful distinction akin to the fallacy of division, hearkening back to one of my favorite books of all time, &#8220;How to Lie with Statistics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The French figure prominently in his examples, but the title is misleading.  (Extra credit for anyone who can identify the title&#8217;s fallacy.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, he writes an article called &#8220;Statistics can mislead as easily as they can enlighten&#8221; published in CSM. It points out a useful distinction akin to the fallacy of division, hearkening back to one of my favorite books of all time, &#8220;How to Lie with Statistics.&#8221; The French figure prominently in his examples, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}