{"id":207,"date":"2020-06-30T18:21:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T18:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog2.com\/b\/?p=207"},"modified":"2020-07-01T04:31:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T04:31:11","slug":"noise2news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/30\/noise2news\/","title":{"rendered":"noise2news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wonder if journalists, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/amp\/story\/wearing-a-mask-to-halt-the-spread-of-coronavirus-has-a-big-impact-on-us-economic-growthand-goldman-has-done-the-math-2020-06-30\">Goldman Sachs<\/a> for that matter, will ever learn to read graphs, and more importantly when it stops making sense  willing some trend lines into some randomly scattered points. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if journalists, or Goldman Sachs for that matter, will ever learn to read graphs, and more importantly when it stops making sense willing some trend lines into some randomly scattered points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>When Graphs Become Guesswork: The Art of Financial Forecasting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Goldman Sachs and journalists playing connect-the-dots with scattered data points. 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