{"id":1227,"date":"2007-07-05T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2007-07-06T06:53:28","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T11:53:28","slug":"what-are-the-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1227","title":{"rendered":"What are the odds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A roundup of serveral people who had interesting responses to my <a href=\"?p=1223\">Seesaw probability theory<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Darkenna sets a non-believer straight in <a href=\"http:\/\/webgodd-s.livejournal.com\/317161.html\">this thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rampantgames.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/youngs-law-of-twenty-sided-dice.html\">anecdotal evidence is the most convincing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/improperaxis.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/oh-twenty-wow-what-are-chances-about.html\">The science behind seesaw probability<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicconservative.com\/weblog\/?p=2090\">More analysis here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT:  Also, never mistake <a href=\"http:\/\/nerdworldcountry.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/superstition-part-of-any-good-strategy.html\">superstition<\/a> for science! Or is that the other way around?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A roundup of serveral people who had interesting responses to my Seesaw probability theory: Darkenna sets a non-believer straight in this thread. Everyone knows that anecdotal evidence is the most convincing. The science behind seesaw probability. More analysis here. EDIT: Also, never mistake superstition for science! Or is that the other way around?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerd-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}