{"id":80,"date":"2005-09-08T13:57:13","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T03:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/?p=80"},"modified":"2005-09-08T13:57:17","modified_gmt":"2005-09-08T03:57:17","slug":"employment-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/09\/08\/employment-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- UnMarkedDown_2_01132526384--><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a puzzle I have been pondering: <\/p>\n<p><strong>Which occupation is the most under-represented on television?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clearly some occupations are over-represented on television compared to their numbers in the community: Police officers, medical doctors, lawyers, soldiers, politicians, etc. If your occupation can combine two or three of the above, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0112022\/\">you<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0098844\/\">are<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0247082\/\">also<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0364845\/\">well<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0318904\/\">represented<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But which occupation most needs an publicity agent? Which job is the most common in real life, and yet just doesn&#8217;t get any airtime?<\/p>\n<p>Any appearance on television counts, including fact-based shows, fiction-based shows and advertising (if you can still tell the difference between these categories). Approximate matches count: For example, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0247081\/\">TV show<\/a> containing high-school English teachers should be considered to cover primary-school English teachers, too.<\/p>\n<p>This thought initially came to me as I pondered that I know a handful of linguists (who I have met independently of their work) but I have never seen one on TV.  I have heard reports that there was one being interviewed on the local news recently, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which occupation is the most under-represented on television?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzle-solving","category-thoughts-from-the-shower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}