{"id":100,"date":"2011-01-04T20:49:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T04:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/?p=100"},"modified":"2011-01-04T20:49:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T04:49:34","slug":"the-decline-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"The Decline Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <em>the New Yorker<\/em>, our buddy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/?p=37\">Jonah Lehrer<\/a> has written an article called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2010\/12\/13\/101213fa_fact_lehrer?currentPage=all\">The Truth Wears Off<\/a>. I give its own entry because it&#8217;s deeply disturbing, and worth reading. An excerpt to give you an idea:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6] all sorts of well-established, multiply confirmed findings have started to look increasingly uncertain. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s as if our facts were losing their truth: claims that have been enshrined in textbooks are suddenly unprovable. This phenomenon doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t yet have an official name, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s occurring across a wide range of fields, from psychology to ecology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth the time it takes to read, because it gives you an insight into why good science should seem especially messy. About the only thing the article doesn&#8217;t cover is the possibility that our understanding of statistics isn&#8217;t as good as we think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[20],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h13J-1C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}