{"id":481,"date":"2007-08-09T10:32:25","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T05:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/09\/annals-of-innumeracy-i\/"},"modified":"2007-08-09T10:32:25","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T05:02:25","slug":"annals-of-innumeracy-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200708\/annals-of-innumeracy-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Annals of Innumeracy I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a new series, where I point out instances of mathematical illiteracy so that I can be a smartarse. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to sociologist Walter Fernandes, 40 percent of those displaced by development projects are tribals, although they constitute less than 8 percent of the population. Put another way, a tribal is five times as likely as a nontribal to have his property seized by the state.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is Ram Guha, in an otherwise excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20070716\/guha\">article<\/a> in the <em>Nation<\/em> about the roots of the Naxal threat. The correct number is not five. It is 7.66 times. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a new series, where I point out instances of mathematical illiteracy so that I can be a smartarse. According to sociologist Walter Fernandes, 40 percent of those displaced by development projects are tribals, although they constitute less than 8 percent of the population. Put another way, a tribal is five times as likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}