{"id":2937,"date":"2010-02-15T21:43:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T01:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=2937"},"modified":"2010-02-15T21:43:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T01:43:32","slug":"the-ridiculousness-of-reducing-causes-to-simple-variables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/the-ridiculousness-of-reducing-causes-to-simple-variables\/","title":{"rendered":"The ridiculousness of reducing causes to simple variables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or using opinion to deduce causes for an outcome.<\/p>\n<p>Have to be honest, the world doesn&#8217;t revolve on empirical studies, it\u00a0revolves around irrational people which make irrational decisions\u00a0every minute of the day.<\/p>\n<p>When there is empirical research chances are it&#8217;s wrong anyway (see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.local\/you-are-always-wrong\/\">You&#8217;re Always Wrong<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it is ridiculous to reduce complex problems into simple causes\u00a0or maybe it&#8217;s these ridiculous opinions or nagging gut feelings which help us find a better\u00a0solution&#8230; and be less wrong than we are today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or using opinion to deduce causes for an outcome. Have to be honest, the world doesn&#8217;t revolve on empirical studies, it\u00a0revolves around irrational people which make irrational decisions\u00a0every minute of the day. When there is empirical research chances are it&#8217;s wrong anyway (see\u00a0You&#8217;re Always Wrong). Maybe it is ridiculous to reduce complex problems into simple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[214,880,1227,1336,1394],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}