{"id":2057,"date":"2015-11-16T01:22:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T06:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2015-10-31T08:28:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T13:28:18","slug":"the-difference-that-makes-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2015\/11\/the-difference-that-makes-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"The Difference that Makes a Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is the key to information\u2014what separates just more data from something that enables a good choice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of course we all want to find this. This is the stuff of basic science that most of us understand.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s walk through a silly example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am gaining weight. Why?<\/li>\n<li>I eat 12 hot dogs every Saturday<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Eating hot dogs on <em>Saturday<\/em> doesn&#8217;t make me overweight. Eating <em>12<\/em> hot dogs does. It is the <em>quantity<\/em> of the hot dogs, not the <em>day<\/em> of the week is the difference that makes a difference.<\/p>\n<p>Or then again, maybe it is the composition of hot dogs that makes a difference.<\/p>\n<p>Did I mention that I eat a gallon of ice cream every weekday evening before going to bed? Perhaps it is the ice cream. Perhaps it is the time of day. Perhaps&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Everyone can see that, right? I guess not given the mess of the world we have. That is, the world is so complex and there is such much information and I am overwhelmed and didn&#8217;t sleep well last night and really didn&#8217;t read the above clearly and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What difference does it make?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips This is the key to information\u2014what separates just more data from something that enables a good choice. Of course we all want to find this. This is the stuff of basic science that most of us understand. Let&#8217;s walk through a silly example: I am gaining weight. Why? I eat 12 hot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,100,45],"tags":[143,215,167],"class_list":["post-2057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-diet","category-differences","tag-change","tag-diet","tag-differences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2058,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions\/2058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}