{"id":131,"date":"2013-09-14T22:04:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T12:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/?p=131"},"modified":"2013-09-15T10:59:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T00:59:47","slug":"this-week-i-learned-14-september-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/2013\/09\/this-week-i-learned-14-september-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week I Learned &#8211; 14 September 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The use and misuse of statistics &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2013\/09\/sinister-statistics-do-left-handed-people-die-young.html\">do left-handed people really die young<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>Did you know that between 1730 and 1850, the average height of British soldiers actually fell? It seems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/freeexchange\/2013\/09\/economic-history-0\">the Industrial Revolution took a long time to improve living standards.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323455104579015190699664588.html\">What possesses a publisher to produce a new version of a classic<\/a>?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-24040130\">The ugliest creature in the world<\/a>. It really is ugly!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The use and misuse of statistics &#8211; do left-handed people really die young? Did you know that between 1730 and 1850, the average height of British soldiers actually fell? It seems the Industrial Revolution took a long time to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/2013\/09\/this-week-i-learned-14-september-2013\/\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-week-i-learned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}