{"id":16070,"date":"2016-10-14T15:44:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T19:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=16070"},"modified":"2016-10-14T15:44:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T19:44:17","slug":"well-rounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/14\/well-rounded\/","title":{"rendered":"Well Rounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2016\/10\/well-rounded\/\">Dr. Drang<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2016\/10\/well-rounded\/\">\n<p>The problem with always rounding halves up is that in doing so, you introduce a persistent bias in whatever calculations you do with the rounded number. If you&rsquo;re adding a list of rounded numbers, for example, the sum will be biased high.<\/p>\n<p>If you round halves to the nearest even number, though, the bias from upward roundings tends to be negated by an equal number of downward roundings.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Drang: The problem with always rounding halves up is that in doing so, you introduce a persistent bias in whatever calculations you do with the rounded number. If you&rsquo;re adding a list of rounded numbers, for example, the sum will be biased high. If you round halves to the nearest even number, though, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,26,259,442],"class_list":["post-16070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-iosapp","tag-math","tag-pcalc"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16071,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16070\/revisions\/16071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}