{"id":5472,"date":"2016-01-12T18:41:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T18:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=5472"},"modified":"2023-04-24T23:06:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T23:06:04","slug":"tricking-yourself-for-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/tricking-yourself-for-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Tricking yourself&#8211;for science!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that&#8217;s scientific rigor! A team studying gravitational waves is [intentionally trying to fool itself](https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/speaking-of-science\/wp\/2016\/01\/12\/why-is-this-famous-physicist-tweeting-rumors-about-gravitational-waves\/):<\/p>\n<p>> Because gravitational waves are so tiny, and it&#8217;s easy to get false positives, the LIGO team includes three individuals capable of injecting false signals to test the group&#8217;s ability to weed them out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that&#8217;s scientific rigor! A team studying gravitational waves is [intentionally trying to fool itself](https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/speaking-of-science\/wp\/2016\/01\/12\/why-is-this-famous-physicist-tweeting-rumors-about-gravitational-waves\/): > Because gravitational waves are so tiny, and it&#8217;s easy to get false positives, the LIGO team includes three individuals capable of injecting false signals to test the group&#8217;s ability to weed them out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[390,376],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-5472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decisions","category-nature-2","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1qg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5475,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472\/revisions\/5475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}