{"id":4339,"date":"2011-05-06T11:51:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T17:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4339"},"modified":"2012-12-15T10:56:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T16:56:40","slug":"mathematical-malpractice-watch-10-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4339","title":{"rendered":"Mathematical Malpractice Watch: 10 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously?  You think we can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/dailychart\/2011\/05\/world_population_forecasts?fsrc=rss\">project<\/a> population growth a century in advance?  Really?  You have Nigeria quintupling in population over the next century.  That&#8217;s predicting the reproductive habits of people who&#8217;s great-grandparents have yet to be born.<\/p>\n<p>What a load of crap.<\/p>\n<p>Social scientists simply never learn.  Every single population projection we have seen for the last fifty years has been too high.  Why should we trust them now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously? You think we can project population growth a century in advance? Really? You have Nigeria quintupling in population over the next century. That&#8217;s predicting the reproductive habits of people who&#8217;s great-grandparents have yet to be born. What a load of crap. Social scientists simply never learn. Every single population projection we have seen for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4339\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mathematical Malpractice Watch: 10 Billion<\/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":[5],"tags":[105,172],"class_list":["post-4339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-mathematical-malpractice","tag-social-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-17Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339","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=4339"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5674,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339\/revisions\/5674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}