{"id":29681,"date":"2023-07-05T09:53:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T13:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=29681"},"modified":"2023-07-05T09:53:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T13:53:20","slug":"statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=29681","title":{"rendered":"Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"block-c63633b9-a773-4e40-b35d-cfc489aaf451\">(Apologies to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/149909\/a-word-on-statistics\">Wislawa Szymborska<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Attentive to all in a conversation:\nTen percent of the population. \nSomeone's shame provokes a laugh:\nOften true for over half. \nReady and willing to reconcile:\nRare below the top quintile. \nTwenty percent, plus-or-minus three:\nThose who\u2019ll let an eccentric be. \nAlmost three out of every four\nAre quick to pity the sick or poor,\nBut doing something to counter hate: \nNo more than one in any eight. \nScoring high on all these measures:\nWe've found no such human treasures.\nOf compassion, pure examples?\nOne or two in all our samples. \nBut needing someone\u2019s forgiving love:\nNinety-nine percent thereof.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=28216\">Cuttings: A book about happiness<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Apologies to Wislawa Szymborska) Attentive to all in a conversation: Ten percent of the population. Someone&#8217;s shame provokes a laugh: Often true for over half. Ready and willing to reconcile: Rare below the top quintile. Twenty percent, plus-or-minus three: Those who\u2019ll let an eccentric be. Almost three out of every four Are quick to pity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-verse-and-worse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29681"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29687,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29681\/revisions\/29687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}