{"id":569,"date":"2009-11-28T21:09:19","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T21:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jarrodhart.wordpress.com\/?p=569"},"modified":"2009-11-28T21:09:19","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T21:09:19","slug":"the-statistics-of-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"The Statistics of Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By all rights we should be rather scared of cars. We should regard them in much the same way we would regard a tarantula on the bedsheets or a short stroll on a tightrope. Yet we aren&#8217;t. Curious. Cars kill far more people than lava flows, piranhas or anthrax.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps they are too new for evolution to equip us?<\/p>\n<p>Now if we look into\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.statistics.gov.uk\/statbase\/Product.asp?vlnk=15096\">the stats<\/a> you realise we should be even more terrified of crap food, and the word &#8220;sedentary&#8221; should be a glare-inducing swear-word. If our bodies knew what was good for them, we would get grouchy after a day without a vigorous walk, and start shaking weakly after two. Sugar, so long sweet, should soon evolve to be utterly disgusting. Not soon enough for some.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By all rights we should be rather scared of cars. We should regard them in much the same way we would regard a tarantula on the bedsheets or a short stroll on a tightrope. Yet we aren&#8217;t. Curious. Cars kill far more people than lava flows, piranhas or anthrax. Perhaps they are too new for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16,26],"tags":[77,258,126,267,268,210,221,226,227],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}