{"id":92,"date":"2003-07-10T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-10T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2016-10-09T14:43:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T19:43:46","slug":"92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/10\/92\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun With Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, back in the <i>Chicago Tribune<\/i>, Steve Chapman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/columnists\/chi-0307100094jul10,1,7715880.column?coll=chi-news-col\" target=\"new\">comments<\/a> (registration required) on President Bush&#8217;s trip to Africa and wonders whether we&#8217;re helping or hindering Africa&#8217;s case with monetary aid.  Good question.  Unfortunately, he includes this interesting factoid:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This week, he became only the third U.S. president to visit Africa in the last 25 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By my dead reckoning, since 1978 we have had only 5 presidents (Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush) serve, and of those 5, only 3 have served their complete terms.  At very worst, of our last five presidents, 60% have gone to Africa.  I&#8217;m not certain 60% merits an <b><i>only<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, back in the Chicago Tribune, Steve Chapman comments (registration required) on President Bush&#8217;s trip to Africa and wonders whether we&#8217;re helping or hindering Africa&#8217;s case with monetary aid. Good question. Unfortunately, he includes this interesting factoid: This week, he became only the third U.S. president to visit Africa in the last 25 years. By [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15755,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/15755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}