{"id":4,"date":"2005-03-31T10:07:29","date_gmt":"2005-03-31T14:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2005\/03\/31\/where-the-news-at\/"},"modified":"2005-03-31T10:07:29","modified_gmt":"2005-03-31T14:07:29","slug":"where-the-news-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2005\/03\/31\/where-the-news-at\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the news at?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Robotwisdom<\/a> makes this interesting point:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Google News Search<\/b><\/td>\n# hits<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
schiavo bulimia<\/a><\/td>\n150<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
schiavo -bulimia<\/a><\/td>\n65,300<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Now, I pronounce that it would be unreasonable to expect all, or even most, of these Schiavo hits to mention bulimia — most of them have to do with legal and political wrangling and the course of her dying, and the cause of her condition doesn’t really directly enter into these things too much.<\/p>\n

You’ve been caveated. Let’s make a fun comparison!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Google News Search<\/b><\/td>\n# hits<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
pope parkinson’s<\/a><\/td>\n6750<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
pope -parkinson’s<\/a><\/td>\n19,100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

If this were science, we could easily compute an ætiology relevance coefficient, or “matter factor” for each of these cases. To educate while I obfuscate, I list each by their name’s meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Figure<\/b><\/td>\nMatter Factor<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Slave<\/td>\n0.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Father<\/td>\n35.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robotwisdom makes this interesting point: Google News Search # hits schiavo bulimia 150 schiavo -bulimia 65,300 Now, I pronounce that it would be unreasonable to expect all, or even most, of these Schiavo hits to mention bulimia — most of them have to do with legal and political wrangling and the course of her dying, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}