{"id":1004,"date":"2009-11-09T18:45:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T13:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2009-11-09T18:45:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T13:15:32","slug":"counter-intuitive-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2009\/11\/counter-intuitive-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Counter Intuitive Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Godin asks some <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2009\/11\/when-data-and-decisions-collide.html\" target=\"_blank\">tough questions<\/a> in the context of the deluge of data that&#8217;s all around us, and their effect on our decision making&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The data shows, for example, that texting while driving is more dangerous than driving drunk. It doesn&#8217;t feel that way, of course, but will you respect the data and stop, cold turkey?<\/p>\n<p>The data shows that the vast majority of wine drinkers can&#8217;t tell the difference between a $20 bottle and a $100 bottle. Will that keep you from buying the fancy wine? How much is the placebo effect worth?<\/p>\n<p>The data shows that famous colleges underperform many cheaper, friendlier, smaller colleges. How much is your neighbor&#8217;s envy worth?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As his post reminds us, &#8220;these are just a few of the millions of examples of counter-intuitive data-driven findings&#8221;.\u00a0 The real question is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What are you going to do when your hunches don&#8217;t match the data that&#8217;s now pouring in?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Something to think about, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Godin asks some tough questions in the context of the deluge of data that&#8217;s all around us, and their effect on our decision making&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,14],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-life","tag-work"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}