{"id":1789,"date":"2008-09-22T08:53:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T07:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2008-09-22T16:58:56","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T15:58:56","slug":"improbable-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1789","title":{"rendered":"Improbable statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/panorama\/0,1518,578218,00.html\">According to <em>Spiegel<\/em>,<\/a> there are between 8,000 and 10,000 wild boars living in and around Berlin today; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2008\/sep\/22\/rogeralton.theindependent\">according to the <em>Guardian<\/em>,<\/a> the <em>Independent<\/em> currently sells, at full price, 131,566 copies. That&#8217;s before they put the price up 25% to &#163;1.00. The remaining 100,000 on its circulation figures are heavily discounted; I don&#8217;t know what happens to bulk prices when the cover price goes up.<\/p>\n\n\t<p><em>Spiegel<\/em> suggests that forty licensed hunters could bring the boar plague under control and stop them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/fotostrecke\/fotostrecke-35362-2.html#backToArticle=578218\">rootling up graveyards<\/a> and running through gardens. There is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/video\/video-23863.html\">a rather wonderful video<\/a> (start about two thirds of the way through) of swine being hunted through a parking lot on the <em>Spiegel<\/em> site. I wonder if the <em>Independent<\/em>&#8217;s story will have the same ending.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\t<p>According to Spiegel, there are between 8,000 and 10,000 wild boars living in and around Berlin today; according to the Guardian, the Independent currently sells, at full price, 131,566 copies. That&#8217;s before they put the price up 25% to &#163;1.00. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1789\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}