{"id":681,"date":"2005-12-06T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=681"},"modified":"2006-10-08T16:04:35","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T16:04:35","slug":"679466-of-bn-won-pengkalan-pasir-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=681","title":{"rendered":"[679] Of BN won Pengkalan Pasir by-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to national TV, at 2120 Malaysian time, Barisan Nasional won Pengkalan Pasir by a small margin. Because of the small margin, a recount is due tomorrow &#8211; thanks to that, this win is unofficial. But somehow, I doubt there that there will be a different picture tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it may be, I hope the Election Commission will publish the standard error for the by-election. Let&#8217;s see how uncertain the result really is.<\/p>\n<p>For those who want to know about why a recount is due, statistically, read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confidence_interval\">confidence interval at Wikipedia<\/a>. Quite light, compared to what I had to suffer during my junior year at Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>And heh. <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=648\">What did I tell you?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pay up.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder, how Ibrahim Ali did in the competition. Hmm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to national TV, at 2120 Malaysian time, Barisan Nasional won Pengkalan Pasir by a small margin. Because of the small margin, a recount is due tomorrow &#8211; thanks to that, this win is unofficial. But somehow, I doubt there that there will be a different picture tomorrow. Whatever it may be, I hope the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}