{"id":3134,"date":"2015-01-13T11:22:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T17:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3134"},"modified":"2015-01-13T10:07:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T16:07:20","slug":"map-of-the-week-all-the-goats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2015\/01\/13\/map-of-the-week-all-the-goats\/","title":{"rendered":"Map of the Week &#8211; All the Goats"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2795\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2795\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/08\/goat-head.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2795\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/08\/goat-head.jpg\" alt=\"Goats are an ancient symbol of the left-hand path\" width=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/08\/goat-head.jpg 592w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/08\/goat-head-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No goats were harmed in the making of this map<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today&#8217;s map is going to seem entirely frivolous and unconnected to scientific skepticism, secularism, and atheism, but that is only because it is indeed unconnected to scientific skepticism, secularism, and atheism. As a feat of data visualization, it&#8217;s not even particularly impressive. As a feat of obsessive completism, though, it is really quite something to enumerate 2,621,514 goats, one by one. (To be honest, I can think of much worse things to do with taxpayer money.)<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/files\/2015\/01\/goatz.png\" target=\"_blank\">full map<\/a> of literally every goat in the United States may be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2015\/01\/12\/map-literally-every-goat-in-the-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\">over at Wonkblog<\/a>. Go have a look. I&#8217;ve excerpted just a small sample below, to illustrate the glory that is the American goat belt:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3136\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3136\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3136 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/01\/imrs.png\" alt=\"imrs\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/01\/imrs.png 300w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/01\/imrs-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/01\/imrs-37x37.png 37w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/01\/imrs-128x128.png 128w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/01\/imrs-184x184.png 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finally, Texas is really good for something<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ll get serious again soon, but when the world news is full of depressing headlines, sometimes I just need to relax and think about goats.<\/p>\n<p>This post is dedicated to Justin Vacula, for less-than-obvious reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s map is going to seem entirely frivolous and unconnected to scientific skepticism, secularism, and atheism, but that is only&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-3134","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\/3134","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=3134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}