{"id":25616,"date":"2019-08-18T10:09:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T15:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=25616"},"modified":"2019-08-18T10:09:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T15:09:19","slug":"word-of-the-day-494","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/08\/18\/word-of-the-day-494\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Psephologists<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Psephology<\/b>\u00a0(<span class=\"nowrap\"><span class=\"IPA nopopups noexcerpt\"><a title=\"Help:IPA\/English\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA\/English\">\/<span title=\"'s' in 'sigh'\">s<\/span><span title=\"\/\u026a\/: 'i' in 'kit'\">\u026a<\/span><span title=\"\/\u02c8\/: primary stress follows\">\u02c8<\/span><span title=\"'f' in 'find'\">f<\/span><span title=\"\/\u0252\/: 'o' in 'body'\">\u0252<\/span><span title=\"'l' in 'lie'\">l<\/span><span title=\"\/\u0259\/: 'a' in 'about'\">\u0259<\/span><span title=\"\/d\u0292\/: 'j' in 'jam'\">d\u0292<\/span><span title=\"\/i\/: 'y' in 'happy'\">i<\/span>\/<\/a><\/span><\/span>; from Greek\u00a0<span lang=\"el\">\u03c8\u1fc6\u03c6\u03bf\u03c2<\/span>,\u00a0<i lang=\"el-Latn\" title=\"Greek-language romanization\">psephos<\/i>, &#8216;pebble&#8217;, as the Greeks used pebbles as ballots) is a branch of\u00a0<a title=\"Political science\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Political_science\">political science<\/a>, the &#8220;quantitative analysis of elections and balloting&#8221;.\u00a0As such, psephology attempts to scientifically explicate\u00a0<a title=\"Election\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Election\">elections<\/a>.\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psephology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in an email:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Polling disaster:<\/b>\u00a0Australian psephologists are facing a barrage of criticism for their\u00a0<a title=\"failure to predict the Coalition\u2019s\u00a0 election victory.\" href=\"http:\/\/click.e.newscientist.com\/?qs=301a898e59085f8e323ad46b0dd3886b87859c17e708e4cb2ee4fd6e21fc3c84bf900a33c145e111e33c176147a18f4b67fbe9f66655cb19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click.e.newscientist.com\/?qs%3D301a898e59085f8e323ad46b0dd3886b87859c17e708e4cb2ee4fd6e21fc3c84bf900a33c145e111e33c176147a18f4b67fbe9f66655cb19&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1566091379655000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEcLbaz7BRCOm904WVz24JwUqRXrA\">failure to predict the Coalition\u2019s\u00a0 election victory.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psephologists: Psephology\u00a0(\/s\u026a\u02c8f\u0252l\u0259d\u0292i\/; from Greek\u00a0\u03c8\u1fc6\u03c6\u03bf\u03c2,\u00a0psephos, &#8216;pebble&#8217;, as the Greeks used pebbles as ballots) is a branch of\u00a0political science, the &#8220;quantitative analysis of elections and balloting&#8221;.\u00a0As such, psephology attempts to scientifically explicate\u00a0elections.\u00a0[Wikipedia] Noted in an email: Polling disaster:\u00a0Australian psephologists are facing a barrage of criticism for their\u00a0failure to predict the Coalition\u2019s\u00a0 election \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/08\/18\/word-of-the-day-494\/\"> 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-25616","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\/25616","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=25616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25617,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25616\/revisions\/25617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}