{"id":975,"date":"2004-12-06T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-06T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/06\/meaningless-statistics\/"},"modified":"2004-12-06T12:07:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-06T12:07:00","slug":"meaningless-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/06\/meaningless-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaningless statistics."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that if you plot the population density of haystacks against that of brothels that you find that there&#8217;s an inverse relationship?<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, from this you can prove that the two are mutually exclusive.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, a new idea for New Labour to pick up:- Inoculate towns and cities against prostitution by installing haystacks. Of course, this would need a new QANGO (Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation) such as the Office for Haystacks with a Haystack Czar and the Haystack Direct hotline.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure this would be a populist winner in the fight against anti-social behaviour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that if you plot the population density of haystacks against that of brothels that you find that there&#8217;s an inverse relationship? Indeed, from this you can prove that the two are mutually exclusive. Hence, a new idea &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/06\/meaningless-statistics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Kvvs-fJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}