{"id":1774308,"date":"2005-08-08T00:56:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-08T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/2005\/08\/08\/A-physicist-a-statistician\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T03:38:01","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T03:38:01","slug":"A-physicist-a-statistician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=1774308","title":{"rendered":"A physicist, a statistician,"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='sustuff'>Stumbleupon <a href='http:\/\/horsewithnobunty.stumbleupon.com\/review\/1774308\/'>Review<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p> A physicist, a statistician, and a (pure) mathematician go to the races and place bets on horses.<br \/>\nThe physicist&#8217;s horse comes in last. &#8220;I don&#8217;t understand it. I have determined each horse&#8217;s strength through a series of careful measurements.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe statistician&#8217;s horse does a little bit better, but still fails miserably. &#8220;How is this possible? I have statistically evaluated the results of all races for the past month.&#8221;<br \/>\nThey both look at the mathematician whose horse came in first. &#8220;How did you do it?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Well&#8221;, he explains. &#8220;First, I assumed that all horses were identical and spherical&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbleupon Review A physicist, a statistician, and a (pure) mathematician go to the races and place bets on horses. The physicist&#8217;s horse comes in last. &#8220;I don&#8217;t understand it. I have determined each horse&#8217;s strength through a series of careful &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=1774308\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[1381],"tags":[400569],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774308"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1774308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1774308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1774308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1774308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}