{"id":3187,"date":"2015-10-20T16:44:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T21:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3187"},"modified":"2015-10-21T08:05:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T13:05:53","slug":"worldstatisticsday-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2015\/10\/20\/worldstatisticsday-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"World Statistics Day 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of world statistics day, a few statistics about the world.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, Hans Rosling&#8217;s classic lecture about how the developing world has been catching up over the last few decades:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The best stats you&#039;ve ever seen - Hans Rosling\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/usdJgEwMinM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Secondly, a more recent lecture from Hans and Ola Rosling:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How not to be ignorant about the world | Hans and Ola Rosling\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sm5xF-UYgdg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Finally, here is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.worldbank.org\/opendata\/17-statistics-world-statistics-day-and-why-we-need-invest-them\" target=\"_blank\">a list of mostly salient statistics<\/a> from Tariq Khokhar (published earlier today) on how far we still have to go in terms of measuring and improving global health and access to basic services.<\/p>\n<p>(You may safely ignore that last bit about how statisticians have the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/insights\/innovation\/hal_varian_on_how_the_web_challenges_managers\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201csexiest job\u201d of this decade<\/a>. I&#8217;m quite confident that it was made up on the spot, just like 80% of all statistics.)<\/p>\n<p>Share and enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of world statistics day, a few statistics about the world. Firstly, Hans Rosling&#8217;s classic lecture about how the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-damned-lies-and-statistics","category-skepticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187","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=3187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}