{"id":4426,"date":"2013-09-17T08:43:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T13:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4426"},"modified":"2013-09-17T08:43:01","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T13:43:01","slug":"fun-with-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4426","title":{"rendered":"Fun with charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of arguments fail the freshness test; they&#8217;re fallacious for reasons any undergraduate can point out.\u00c2\u00a0 These are our focus here for the most part.<\/p>\n<p>Other arguments, however,\u00c2\u00a0fail for slightly more sophisticated, but not less pernicious, reasons.\u00c2\u00a0 These cloak themselves in the sincerity of honest inquiry or grown up skepticism, but in reality they&#8217;re just mechanisms for refusing to engage with the claims of the opposition.\u00c2\u00a0 This chart, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/09\/12\/how-to-argue-with-research-you-dont-like\/\">found at the Wonkblog<\/a> (thanks Colin) identifies some common strategies:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/files\/2013\/09\/how_to_argue_with_studies1-565x800.png\" width=\"565\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fun times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of arguments fail the freshness test; they&#8217;re fallacious for reasons any undergraduate can point out.\u00c2\u00a0 These are our focus here for the most part. Other arguments, however,\u00c2\u00a0fail for slightly more sophisticated, but not less pernicious, reasons.\u00c2\u00a0 These cloak themselves in the sincerity of honest inquiry or grown up skepticism, but in reality they&#8217;re just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4426\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fun with charts<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1739,1740,470,1738],"class_list":["post-4426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-disagreement","tag-dylan-matthews","tag-science","tag-wonkblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4427,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426\/revisions\/4427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}