{"id":289,"date":"2002-06-14T22:48:05","date_gmt":"2002-06-14T22:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2002\/06\/14\/creativity_mandated.html"},"modified":"2002-06-14T22:48:05","modified_gmt":"2002-06-14T22:48:05","slug":"creativity_mandated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2002\/06\/14\/creativity_mandated.html","title":{"rendered":"creativity mandated&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i remember first hearing about the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/books\/int\/2002\/06\/06\/florida\/index.html?x\">be creative or die<\/a>&#8221; research in response to a lot of stuff in japan, and then again when i came across the research on why gays are the best predictors of good cities to live in (and how gays &#038; techies are a lot alike&#8230; tehehe).  i&#8217;m always humored reading this kind of stuff, because it&#8217;s just predictive metrics, making a slice through two dimensions in habits to show commonalities&#8230; but it&#8217;s the same stuff that got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0684824299\/qid=1024109227\/sr=8-1\/ref=sr_8_1\/104-6999004-1539160\">the bell curve<\/a> folks into <a href=\"http:\/\/s-2000.com\/hi-iq\/intelligence\/the_bell_curve.html\">a heap of trouble<\/a>.  statistics are just great &#8211; they show lots of fun things, and almost always those fun things are 100% accurate for what they&#8217;re showing&#8230; and then they get used to extrapolate and that&#8217;s when we all get into a bit of trouble&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i remember first hearing about the &#8220;be creative or die&#8221; research in response to a lot of stuff in japan, and then again when i came across the research on why gays are the best predictors of good cities to live in (and how gays &#038; techies are a lot alike&#8230; tehehe). i&#8217;m always humored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}