{"id":20,"date":"2008-02-29T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/blog\/2008\/02\/29\/religion-media-overestimation\/"},"modified":"2021-02-21T23:45:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T04:45:12","slug":"overestimation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/2008\/02\/29\/overestimation\/","title":{"rendered":"Overestimation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other night CBS news reported a study on Americans and religion. The most interesting part was that only 1.6% of Americans are Jewish, yet since they dominate the media (it seems like every actor is a Jew), the perception is that they comprise a large proportion of the country. It is interesting and concerning that such an overestimation can occur, but then, statistics are the <em>bastard child of maths<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/tag\/media\/\" rel=\"tag\">Media<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/tag\/religion\/\" rel=\"tag\">Religion<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other night CBS news reported a study on Americans and religion. The most interesting part was that only 1.6% of Americans are Jewish, yet since they dominate the media (it seems like every actor is a Jew), the perception is that they comprise a large proportion of the country. It is interesting and concerning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,10],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-media","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}