{"id":11984,"date":"2020-11-03T22:29:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T06:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=11984"},"modified":"2020-11-04T23:30:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T07:30:24","slug":"us-election-and-information-gathering-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/us-election-and-information-gathering-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"US Election And Information Gathering Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well today there was no avoiding this even in Canada as everywhere was plastered in regards to news about the US election.  What happens south can greatly dictate what will happen here so it makes sense to be informed on who will be president.  That was the interesting part as the night went on as it seemed like getting unbiased information was actually hard to find.  For example, some places were calling victories way too early in some instances where in others they waited to the very last minute.<\/p>\n<p>The results didn\u2019t seem to pan out like what the experts predicted as well which makes you wonder are these experts truly experts?  Just trying to find raw data seemed to be the key where the easiest way was to try and get away from mainstream media options and to the lesser known news sources who focused more on sowing the data as opposed to telling a narrative based on a political bias.<\/p>\n<p>It made me think how even for business it\u2019s important to look at the numbers yourself at times to try and get a real picture on what is going on.  Then afterwards you can use \u201cexpert\u201d analysis to see if what they say adds up with what you are observing as well.  Otherwise you can end up just blindly believing something that isn\u2019t true while ending up wasting money on large purchases as an example.  Or worst, being misguided about trend and then completely missing the boat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well today there was no avoiding this even in Canada as everywhere was plastered in regards to news about the US election. What happens south can greatly dictate what will happen here so it makes sense to be informed on who will be president. That was the interesting part as the night went on as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[2610,6377,1243],"class_list":["post-11984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-information","tag-trends","tag-us-election"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/airquality.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-37i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11985,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984\/revisions\/11985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}