{"id":232,"date":"2008-09-04T04:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T04:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/09\/a-numbers-game.html"},"modified":"2008-09-04T04:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T04:42:00","slug":"a-numbers-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/09\/a-numbers-game.html","title":{"rendered":"A Numbers Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

This caught my attention tonight<\/a>…I randomly came across this blog when searching for some information about how the Republican National Committee chooses how many delegates get sent from each state<\/a> (it isn’t as cut and dried as the Electoral College).<\/p>\n

Statistics fascinate me — sure, I’ve been exposed to enough statistics in my work and I understand stuff like Gaussian distributions<\/a>, Chi-squared tests<\/a>, etc. But because of that, I’m keenly aware of how statistics are used all over the place.<\/p>\n

The Yankees thing I’ve referenced above reminded me of that blog posting I did a couple weeks ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I wish I could say more about this, but I’m beat and I’m starting to not make sense…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This caught my attention tonight…I randomly came across this blog when searching for some information about how the Republican National Committee chooses how many delegates get sent from each state (it isn’t as cut and dried as the Electoral College). Statistics fascinate me — sure, I’ve been exposed to enough statistics in my work and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[616],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-3K","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":577,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/06\/the-scripps-national-spelling-bee-some-cool-statistics.html","url_meta":{"origin":232,"position":0},"title":"The Scripps National Spelling Bee: Some Cool Statistics","date":"02 June 11","format":false,"excerpt":"(This is an article I originally wrote for GeekMom.com, to be published on the same day as the finals).We are in the midst of the 84th Scripps National Spelling Bee Week in the Washington, D.C. area. 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