{"id":854674,"date":"2025-06-10T19:12:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T00:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/what-youre-missing-by-focusing-on-the-average-sharon-zicherman\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T19:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T00:12:24","slug":"what-youre-missing-by-focusing-on-the-average-sharon-zicherman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/what-youre-missing-by-focusing-on-the-average-sharon-zicherman\/","title":{"rendered":"What you&#8217;re missing by focusing on the average | Sharon Zicherman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking at the right data when making big decisions? Data deconstructor Sharon Zicherman challenges our reliance on averages, showing how they can be misleading \u2014 especially in life-changing moments. By rethinking the way we interpret data, he reveals a smarter approach to assessing risk and making better choices.Want to help shape TED\u2019s shows going forward&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/go.ted.com\/sharonzicherman\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n TED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking at the right data when making big decisions? Data deconstructor Sharon Zicherman challenges our reliance on averages, showing how they can be misleading \u2014 especially in life-changing moments. By rethinking the way we interpret data, he reveals a smarter approach to assessing risk and making better choices.Want to help shape TED\u2019s shows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":854675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3402,192,2972],"tags":[10873,6922],"class_list":{"0":"post-854674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-missing","8":"category-sports","9":"category-youre","10":"tag-missing","11":"tag-youre"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}