{"id":202580,"date":"2024-12-27T17:25:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T23:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/probability-probably-doesnt-exist"},"modified":"2024-12-27T17:25:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T23:25:09","slug":"probability-probably-doesnt-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/probability-probably-doesnt-exist","title":{"rendered":"Probability Probably Doesn\u2019t Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/probability-probably-doesnt-exist2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All of statistics and much of science depends on probability\u2014an astonishing achievement, considering no one\u2019s really sure what it is.<\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/david-spiegelhalter\/\">David Spiegelhalter<\/a> &amp; <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/nature-magazine\/\"><i>Nature<\/i> magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Life is uncertain. None of us know what is going to happen. We know little of what has happened in the past, or is happening now outside our immediate experience. Uncertainty has been called the \u2018conscious awareness of ignorance\u2019 \u2014 be it of the weather tomorrow, the next Premier League champions, the climate in 2100 or the identity of our ancient ancestors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of statistics and much of science depends on probability\u2014an astonishing achievement, considering no one\u2019s really sure what it is. By David Spiegelhalter &amp; Nature magazine Life is uncertain. None of us know what is going to happen. We know little of what has happened in the past, or is happening now outside our immediate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}