{"id":1505,"date":"2018-01-18T06:51:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T11:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2018-01-18T06:51:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T11:51:48","slug":"january-18-beware-of-tests-that-promise-to-predict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1505","title":{"rendered":"January 18 \u2013 Beware of tests that promise to predict"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"January 18 \u2013 Beware of tests that promise to predict\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1505\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/011818_1151_January18Be1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Verdana; font-size:16pt\">This map of the United States appeared in my Twitter feed today.  The poster of the picture @zoo_quiz promised that if you answered 30 questions they could predict what state you live in.  I took the test and was surprised at the results: I live in New Jersey!  WRONG!!  Not only do I not currently live in New Jersey, I have never lived there.  The states I have liven in are: Illinois, Iowa, West Virginia and Maryland.  How their tool chose New Jersey for me is a complete mystery.  So, this is a reminder to all us not to take test results too seriously unless we know the accuracy of how the test is scored and\/or administered.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Verdana; font-size:16pt\"><br \/>\n\t\t<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 This map of the United States appeared in my Twitter feed today. The poster of the picture @zoo_quiz promised that if you answered 30 questions they could predict what state you live in. I took the test and was surprised at the results: I live in New Jersey! WRONG!! Not only do I not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1505\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">January 18 \u2013 Beware of tests that promise to predict<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions\/1506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}