{"id":14679,"date":"2018-03-10T10:30:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T16:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=14679"},"modified":"2018-03-10T10:30:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T16:30:19","slug":"word-of-the-day-333","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/03\/10\/word-of-the-day-333\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Febrile<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>: marked or caused by fever\u00a0:\u00a0<a class=\"mw_t_sx\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/feverish\">feverish<\/a>\u00a0\u2022 a\u00a0<em><span class=\"mw_t_wi\">febrile<\/span><\/em>\u00a0reaction caused by an allergy <em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/febrile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Merriam-Webster<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23731660-700-work-the-crowd-how-ordinary-people-can-predict-the-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Work the crowd: How ordinary people can predict the future<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Arran Frood, <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (24 February 2018, paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That\u2019s not too shabby a record, although beating a poll might not seem that impressive in today\u2019s febrile political climate. And the prediction markets have a downside: they can be rigged.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/~rs328\/\">Rajiv Sethi<\/a>, an economist at Columbia University in New York, showed that in one prediction market for the 2012 US presidential election,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2322420\">a single trader accounted for a third of all bets on Mitt Romney<\/a>. They may well have been trying to manipulate public confidence in him winning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Febrile: : marked or caused by fever\u00a0:\u00a0feverish\u00a0\u2022 a\u00a0febrile\u00a0reaction caused by an allergy [Merriam-Webster] Noted in &#8220;Work the crowd: How ordinary people can predict the future,&#8221; Arran Frood, NewScientist (24 February 2018, paywall): That\u2019s not too shabby a record, although beating a poll might not seem that impressive in today\u2019s febrile \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/03\/10\/word-of-the-day-333\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14680,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14679\/revisions\/14680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}