{"id":141,"date":"2016-10-12T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T12:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/?p=141"},"modified":"2016-10-04T08:26:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T12:26:46","slug":"noise-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2016\/10\/12\/noise-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"Noise miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve pointed out the problems with small, noisy samples using simulations (<a href=\"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/index.php\/2016\/08\/31\/inference-from-noisy-data-with-small-samples\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/index.php\/2016\/09\/09\/being-bayesian-wont-save-you\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/index.php\/2016\/09\/19\/even-an-informative-prior-doesnt-help-much\/\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/index.php\/2016\/09\/23\/noisy-data-and-small-samples-are-a-bad-combination\/\">here<\/a>). But I&#8217;ve also learned that stories are far more persuasive than facts, and I&#8217;ve learned that I&#8217;m not good at telling stories. Fortunately, there are some people who tell stories very well, and John Schmidt is one of them. Here&#8217;s how his recent story, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/extranewsfeed.com\/the-noise-miners-cffe6c14b626#.fc5j51fve\">Noise Miners<\/a><\/em>, starts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What most people don\u2019t understand about noise is how hard it is to find the good stuff.<\/p>\n<p>You can get noise anywhere; most noise is just sitting on the ground, waiting for you to pick it up. Coincidences\u200a\u2014\u200a\u201ccoinkidinks\u201d, as collectors sometimes call them\u200a\u2014\u200acan be had by the dozen just outside your front door. As I arrived in this small university town, home to one of the largest noise mines in the country, I planned to see how the high-quality noise was dug, and to learn about the often-forgotten people who dig it for us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/extranewsfeed.com\/the-noise-miners-cffe6c14b626#.fc5j51fve\">the link<\/a> and read the whole thing if that piques your interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve pointed out the problems with small, noisy samples using simulations (here, here, here, and here). But I&#8217;ve also learned that stories are far more persuasive than facts, and I&#8217;ve&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2016\/10\/12\/noise-miners\/\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}