{"id":3930,"date":"2010-07-01T08:29:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T16:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=3930"},"modified":"2010-07-01T08:29:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T16:29:21","slug":"lies-damned-lies-and-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/lies-damned-lies-and-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Lies, damned lies and statistics&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nevada journalist <strong>Mark Twain<\/strong> popularized this quote, believed to have originated with <strong>Charles Wentworth Dilke<\/strong>. (I know: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Wentworth_Dilke\" target=\"_blank\">Who?!?!?<\/a>&#8220;) One rarely sees an object demonstration of what Dilke &#8212; and Twain &#8212; meant, but this gem literally fell into my &#8220;in&#8221; box this morning and was too amusing to keep to myself:<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"450\" height=\"361\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/T1R4rD-ZubI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"361\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/T1R4rD-ZubI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nevada journalist Mark Twain popularized this quote, believed to have originated with Charles Wentworth Dilke. (I know: &#8220;Who?!?!?&#8220;) One rarely sees an object demonstration of what Dilke &#8212; and Twain &#8212; meant, but this gem literally fell into my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/lies-damned-lies-and-statistics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3931,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930\/revisions\/3931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}