{"id":6615,"date":"2017-03-27T23:05:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T22:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=6615"},"modified":"2017-04-12T14:15:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T13:15:37","slug":"lord-kelvin-on-quantification-and-scientific-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2017\/03\/lord-kelvin-on-quantification-and-scientific-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord Kelvin on quantification and scientific knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being annoyed by some of the usual qualitative drivel masquerading as science (see almost any tweet by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realpeerreview?lang=en\">@RealPeerReview<\/a>), I was moved to make a nice background\/poster.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/William_Thomson<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kelvin_quant_quote.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6616\" src=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kelvin_quant_quote-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthropology.ua.edu\/bindon\/ant270\/lectures\/Race2.pdf\">A slide from some anthropologist<\/a> said of Galton that he &#8220;Worshipped at the alter of quantification&#8221;. That&#8217;s a nice way to put it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being annoyed by some of the usual qualitative drivel masquerading as science (see almost any tweet by @RealPeerReview), I was moved to make a nice background\/poster. https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/William_Thomson A slide from some anthropologist said of Galton that he &#8220;Worshipped at the alter of quantification&#8221;. That&#8217;s a nice way to put it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1107,1673],"tags":[2505,2506],"class_list":["post-6615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-science-philosophy","tag-lord-kelvin","tag-quantification","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6693,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615\/revisions\/6693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}