{"id":189786,"date":"2010-02-14T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/14\/cracked-com-gets-serious\/"},"modified":"2010-02-14T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T18:23:00","slug":"cracked-com-gets-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/14\/cracked-com-gets-serious\/","title":{"rendered":"Cracked.com Gets Serious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They just listed the, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_18380_the-6-most-statistically-full-shit-professions.html\">The 6 Most Statistically Full of Sh%$ Professions<\/a>, (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">%$ mine<\/span>) and they are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li value=\"6\">Stock Market Experts<\/li>\n<li value=\"5\">Wine Tasters<\/li>\n<li value=\"4\">Art Critics<\/li>\n<li value=\"3\">Criminal Profilers<\/li>\n<li value=\"2\">Weather Forecasters<\/li>\n<li value=\"1\">Sportswriting<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Note that this is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not<\/span> just a slam at these professions.  It is a statistical analysis about how they perform relative to random chance.<\/p>\n<p>Stock market experts underperform the market, wine tasters cannot tell the difference between &#8220;Grand Cru&#8221; and &#8220;vin de table&#8221;, art critics cannot identify clear forgeries, criminal profilers don&#8217;t beat control groups, weather forecasters don&#8217;t beat chance, and sportswriters bat about .476 at predicting games.<\/p>\n<p>Just to let you know what it means when you allow non-peer reviewed professions to declare themselves &#8220;experts.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They just listed the, &#8220;The 6 Most Statistically Full of Sh%$ Professions, (%$ mine) and they are: Stock Market Experts Wine Tasters Art Critics Criminal Profilers Weather Forecasters Sportswriting Note that this is not just a slam at these professions. It is a statistical analysis about how they perform relative to random chance. Stock market &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[975,1002,992,1248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-good-writing","category-statistics","category-when-did-cracked-magazine-become-cool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}