{"id":186,"date":"2002-07-08T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-08T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=186"},"modified":"2002-07-08T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-08T15:13:00","slug":"speaking-of-deliberate-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of deliberate ignorance&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/\">Salon<\/a> provided the following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/mwt\/wire\/2002\/07\/08\/hiv_carriers\/index.html\">bit of information<\/a> on hiv.  <\/p>\n<p><!--more and the resuts are in...-->They came up with 75% of hiv+ guys being oblivious to their hiv status.  Numbers were higher for racial minorities, particularly black guys (I wonder if the difference was more due to economic class, and insurance to deal with problem, but, oh well, I&#8217;m not going to pursue the article that far).  Another source of potential bias:<\/p>\n<p><cite>Researchers surveyed 5,719 men aged 15 to 29 at dance clubs, bars, health clubs and street locations in Baltimore, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and Seattle from 1994 to 2000. <\/cite><\/p>\n<p>I wonder if they did and\/or why they didn&#8217;t contact social, religious, political, and athletic organizations to pass the opportunity on to their members.  Might hit a slightly different subset of the population, one less prone to consuming judgement &#8220;enhancers&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>Regardless, I don&#8217;t really doubt the gist of their results.  And it does nothing to calm my paranoia.  Maybe I&#8217;ll just laminate myself from the waist down before heading out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salon provided the following bit of information on hiv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}