{"id":5812,"date":"2005-08-31T20:04:03","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T19:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/?p=5812"},"modified":"2005-08-31T20:04:03","modified_gmt":"2005-08-31T19:04:03","slug":"heavy-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2005\/08\/31\/heavy-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/4200056.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC Magazine\">Bad statistics and binge drinking<\/a> &#8211; as much a commentary on sloppy journalism as anything.<br \/>\nFollows on nicely from a discussion we had at the weekend over dinner when a friend revealed that his doctor now considers him a problem drinker just because he said that he&#8217;d had quite a bit to drink at a dinner party recently. We concluded that, as with estimates on spending by one&#8217;s spouse, doctors take your admitted level of alcohol consumption, add five and double it.<br \/>\nExample: a wife comes home with a new handbag and says &quot;it only cost &pound;20&quot; &#8211; the true cost was &pound;50 (20+5=25; 25&#215;2=50)<br \/>\nExample: you tell the nurse that you usually drink 10 units per week. They write down &quot;drinks 30 units per week&quot; in your notes, thereby making you a problem drinker. (10+5=15; 15&#215;2=30)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad statistics and binge drinking &#8211; as much a commentary on sloppy journalism as anything. Follows on nicely from a discussion we had at the weekend over dinner when a friend revealed that his doctor now considers him a problem drinker just because he said that he&#8217;d had quite a bit to drink at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-food-and-drink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}