{"id":2819,"date":"2014-09-08T08:25:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T13:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=2819"},"modified":"2014-09-08T09:36:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T14:36:20","slug":"graph-of-the-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2014\/09\/08\/graph-of-the-week-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Graph of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s200.photobucket.com\/user\/cherryteresa\/media\/blog-misc\/jreffinances_zpsba236ac8.png.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2820\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/09\/jref-summary.png\" alt=\"jref-summary\" width=\"478\" height=\"390\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/09\/jref-summary.png 478w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/09\/jref-summary-300x244.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been following American skepticism at all lately, you&#8217;ll be aware of the <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.randi.org\/showthread.php?t=282363\" target=\"_blank\">endless speculation<\/a> about what is going on with <a href=\"http:\/\/randi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">JREF<\/a>. Much of that speculation has centered around enhanced &#8220;cost-savings and greater efficiency,&#8221; as they say. Like the good skeptics that they are, <a href=\"http:\/\/cherryteresa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cherry Teresa<\/a> and\u00a0Jim Lippard went to the data to try to see the big picture. <a href=\"http:\/\/cherryteresa.com\/wp\/2014\/09\/06\/jref-revenue-claims\/\">Go have a look<\/a> if you&#8217;re interested in that sort of thing. (As one might expect, the overall trendine for net assets will vary quite a bit depending on which year you choose to start from.)<\/p>\n<p>My only comment here is to emphatically echo everything Cherry has said about DJ and Thomas and to wish them all the best going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been following American skepticism at all lately, you&#8217;ll be aware of the endless speculation about what is going&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-damned-lies-and-statistics","category-skepticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819","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=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2821,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions\/2821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}