{"id":4605,"date":"2012-06-26T14:43:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T21:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=4605"},"modified":"2012-06-26T14:43:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T21:43:50","slug":"the-pathology-of-big-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/the-pathology-of-big-data\/","title":{"rendered":"The pathology of Big Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>The pathology of Big Data: the more variables, the DISPROPORTIONATELY higher the number of spurious results that appear &#8220;statistically significant&#8221;. For a real-life application see this busted article in The N E Journal of Medicine<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fooledbyrandomness.com\/NEJM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">www.fooledbyrandomness.com\/NEJM.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10150935763253375&amp;set=a.10150109720973375.279515.13012333374&amp;type=1\">Wall Photos | Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pathology of Big Data: the more variables, the DISPROPORTIONATELY higher the number of spurious results that appear &#8220;statistically significant&#8221;. For a real-life application see this busted article in The N E Journal of Medicine www.fooledbyrandomness.com\/NEJM.pdf via Wall Photos | Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4606,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605\/revisions\/4606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}