{"id":161960,"date":"2022-02-19T08:38:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T14:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=161960"},"modified":"2022-02-19T08:38:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T14:38:16","slug":"quote-of-the-day-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/quote-of-the-day-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>methylethyl, in <a href=\"https:\/\/yardsaleofthemind.wordpress.com\/2022\/02\/18\/a-coof-post\/#comment-31225\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the comments at Joseph Moore&#8217;s place<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whenever I see study titles, or headlines, that involve \u201cmodels\u201d\u2013 I mentally add \u201cIn Legend of Zelda\u201d or something equivalent to every conclusion. It helps put it in perspective. So, you know \u201cmodel estimates covid spread by vaccination rate in Legend of Zelda\u201d or \u201cClimate model predicts 3-foot sea level rise by 2050 in Kingdom of Hyrule\u201d or \u201cModel predicts 10% rise in heart attack deaths with 5% increase in calorie consumption in The SIMS\u201d Because any time you\u2019re working with a model, you\u2019re in video-game land, not the real world: video-game land is simplified, has far fewer variables, by definition cannot have unexpected events or outcomes, etc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>methylethyl, in the comments at Joseph Moore&#8217;s place: Whenever I see study titles, or headlines, that involve \u201cmodels\u201d\u2013 I mentally add \u201cIn Legend of Zelda\u201d or something equivalent to every conclusion. It helps put it in perspective. So, you know \u201cmodel estimates covid spread by vaccination rate in Legend of Zelda\u201d or \u201cClimate model predicts &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/quote-of-the-day-13\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quote of the day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-G8g","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161961,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161960\/revisions\/161961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}