{"id":23489,"date":"2025-06-20T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23489"},"modified":"2025-06-15T13:56:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T18:56:25","slug":"miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23489","title":{"rendered":"Miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>The Texas Sharpshooter fallacy is a common mistake in statistical reasoning. As <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy\">Wikipedia explains<\/a>, it &#8220;arises when a person has a large amount of data at their disposal but only focuses on a small subset of that data,&#8221; like a metaphorical &#8220;person from Texas who fires a gun at the side of a barn, then paints a shooting target centered on the tightest cluster of shots and claims to be a sharpshooter.&#8221; I find the concept fascinating. I just know there&#8217;s a good story idea lurking in there. Beyond that, it&#8217;s a good thing to know so that one can be on guard against it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Quote from <em>The Toll<\/em> by Neal Shusterman: &#8220;A successful lie is not fueled by the liar; it is fueled by the willingness of the listener to believe. You can&#8217;t expose a lie without first shattering the will to believe it. That is why leading people to truth is so much more effective than merely telling them.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23489"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23489"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23765,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23489\/revisions\/23765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}