{"id":2735,"date":"2014-08-05T16:20:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T21:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=2735"},"modified":"2014-08-06T18:09:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T23:09:13","slug":"gotw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2014\/08\/05\/gotw\/","title":{"rendered":"Graph of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/ngrams\/graph?content=yada+yada%2Cblah+blah+blah&amp;year_start=1970&amp;year_end=2000&amp;corpus=15&amp;smoothing=3&amp;share=&amp;direct_url=t1%3B%2Cyada%20yada%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cblah%20blah%20blah%3B%2Cc0\" target=\"_blank\">ngram tool<\/a> makes it relatively easy to see when a new word or phrase gains traction in our culture, or at least in print. For example, consider the following interrelated concepts from the field of women&#8217;s studies:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/08\/ngram_123434857231.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2737\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/08\/ngram_123434857231.jpg\" alt=\"ngram_12343485723\" width=\"889\" height=\"358\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/08\/ngram_123434857231.jpg 889w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/08\/ngram_123434857231-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 889px) 100vw, 889px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mean to suggest that one of these variables <a href=\"http:\/\/rationalwiki.org\/wiki\/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation\" target=\"_blank\">drove the other one<\/a> but it does seem likely that the rise of the same school of thought may well have driven them both.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/nkrs2oe\">interactive graph<\/a>\u00a0for anyone who wants to muck about with the data. What other phrases might be usefully added in to the graph here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s ngram tool makes it relatively easy to see when a new word or phrase gains traction in our culture,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-damned-lies-and-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}