{"id":2259,"date":"2010-01-05T22:43:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T04:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2010-01-05T22:46:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T04:46:44","slug":"think-thin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2259","title":{"rendered":"Think Thin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at the AAS, listening to people talk about science.  So you can imagine my response to the psuedo-science involved in a study that comes to the &#8212; gasp! &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/cafehayek.com\/2010\/01\/the-mysterious-weight-gain.html\">shocking conclusion<\/a> that married women tend to put on more weight than single women and women tend to gain weight when they become moms (i.e., they don&#8217;t shed all the pregnancy weight).  They spend the entire article wondering why and coming up with all kinds of conspiracy theories without going for the obvious explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Stand by for ground-breaking articles that show that single men have more gym memberships than married men and women tend to be less up to date on modern trends when they have kids.<\/p>\n<p>Putzes.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that the data is useless.  It&#8217;s that they can&#8217;t seem to understand the meaning of the data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at the AAS, listening to people talk about science. So you can imagine my response to the psuedo-science involved in a study that comes to the &#8212; gasp! &#8212; shocking conclusion that married women tend to put on more weight than single women and women tend to gain weight when they become moms (i.e., &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2259\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Think Thin<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-Ar","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions\/2263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}