{"id":480,"date":"2015-05-14T20:07:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T20:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labmath.org\/?p=480"},"modified":"2015-05-14T20:07:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T20:07:46","slug":"the-patriots-the-nobel-laureate-and-the-power-of-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labmath.org\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"The Patriots, the Nobel Laureate, and the power of uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chemistry Nobel Laureate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockefeller.edu\/research\/faculty\/labheads\/RoderickMacKinnon\/\">Roderick MacKinnon<\/a>\u00a0has done a wonderful (by which I mean numerically sound) analysis of the analysis of the Patriots&#8217; footballs. \u00a0This is yet another example of the cost of not understanding uncertainty: \u00a0was it $2 million? \u00a0If Brady would like me to teach him, I&#8217;ll take a mere half of that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wellsreportcontext.com\/mackinnons-scientific-conclusion\/\">Analysis of Patriot&#8217;s pressures incorrect<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improbable.com\">Marc Abrahams<\/a> for bringing this to my attention)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemistry Nobel Laureate Roderick MacKinnon\u00a0has done a wonderful (by which I mean numerically sound) analysis of the analysis of the Patriots&#8217; footballs. \u00a0This is yet another example of the cost of not understanding uncertainty: \u00a0was it $2 million? \u00a0If Brady would like me to teach him, I&#8217;ll take a mere half of that. Analysis of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labmath.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}