{"id":152,"date":"2011-03-18T20:03:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T03:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/n676.com\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2011-03-18T20:03:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T03:03:53","slug":"math-and-psychology-calculating-disaster-probabilties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/n676.com\/blog\/2011\/math-and-psychology-calculating-disaster-probabilties\/","title":{"rendered":"Math and Psychology &#8211; Calculating Disaster Probabilties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, math and psychology are separate fields, but they come together in calculating the odds of a nuclear disaster.  You can hire engineers to calculate the probably of a nuclear meltdown.  The calculation itself is a math question, but getting them to do a good job is a psychological question.  What if their boss is evil?  What if there is disagreement and the corporation suppresses the bad reports?  The drug industry also has a problem with companies suppressing reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, math and psychology are separate fields, but they come together in calculating the odds of a nuclear disaster. You can hire engineers to calculate the probably of a nuclear meltdown. The calculation itself is a math question, but getting them to do a good job is a psychological question. What if their boss is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,90,69,1],"tags":[99,87,91,89,88,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/n676.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/n676.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/n676.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/n676.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/n676.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/n676.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"http:\/\/n676.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/n676.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/n676.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/n676.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}