{"id":7915,"date":"2012-01-10T16:03:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T00:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=7915"},"modified":"2012-01-10T16:03:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T00:03:19","slug":"noisy-systems-and-wandering-canines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/10\/noisy-systems-and-wandering-canines\/","title":{"rendered":"Noisy Systems and Wandering Canines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are three types of scientific explanations: those involving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/blogs\/evolution\/Yellow-Cat-Attemtps-to-Debunk-Creationist-Misconceptions.html\">cats<\/a>, those involving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Teach-Relativity-Your-Dog\/dp\/0465023312\/\">dogs<\/a>, and those that aren&#8217;t very interesting.  Via <a href=\"http:\/\/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com\/author\/andrew-c-revkin\/?pagewanted=all\">Andrew Revkin<\/a>, here&#8217;s a well-done animation that uses a dog to explain the difference between a long-term trend and a short-term variation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Trend and variation\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_e0vj-0imOLw\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/e0vj-0imOLw\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e0vj-0imOLw\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1M5S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2012-01-04T16:13:57Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_e0vj-0imOLw\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/e0vj-0imOLw\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Trend and variation<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/e0vj-0imOLw\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/e0vj-0imOLw\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Trend and variation\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Animated short on statistics from Norwegian infotainment program Siffer. Produced by TeddyTV for NRK. Animation by Ole Christoffer Haga\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Show this to your local climate denialist when they get confused about the distinction between &#8220;climate&#8221; and &#8220;weather.&#8221;  Not that it will change their minds, but the dog is cute. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three types of scientific explanations: those involving cats, those involving dogs, and those that aren&#8217;t very interesting. Via Andrew Revkin, here&#8217;s a well-done animation that uses a dog to explain the difference between a long-term trend and a short-term variation. Show this to your local climate denialist when they get confused about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-science-and-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}