{"id":949,"date":"2011-01-07T10:55:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T21:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2011\/01\/plankton_philosophy_and_critic\/"},"modified":"2011-01-07T10:55:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T21:55:55","slug":"plankton-philosophy-and-critic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2011\/01\/plankton-philosophy-and-critic\/","title":{"rendered":"plankton &amp; philosophy &#8211; and critical thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciblogs.co.nz\/code-for-life\/\">Grant <\/a>&amp; I have stumbled across another NZ science blog, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/planktonandphilosophy.wordpress.com\/\">planktonandphilosophy<\/a><\/em> (well, he did the stumbling &amp; then pointed me there). We both particularly liked <a href=\"http:\/\/planktonandphilosophy.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/28\/cause-for-concern\/\">the excellent post on misreporting of statistics <\/a>on armed bank robberies: if you took the headlines at face value, the number of armed heists soared last year. But this post looks at the actual data &amp; discovers&#8230;. drumroll&#8230;. that they&#8217;ve <em>dropped<\/em>. Go over there &amp; read the whole story \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant &amp; I have stumbled across another NZ science blog, planktonandphilosophy (well, he did the stumbling &amp; then pointed me there). We both particularly liked the excellent post on misreporting of statistics on armed bank robberies: if you took the headlines at face value, the number of armed heists soared last year. 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