{"id":363,"date":"2009-03-28T13:08:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T17:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/?p=363"},"modified":"2009-03-28T13:08:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T17:08:41","slug":"yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/28\/yes\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_365\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/amf\/3312042078\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-365\" src=\"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/greatnews.jpg\" alt=\"sms by amf on flickr\" title=\"greatnews\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" class=\"size-full wp-image-365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/greatnews.jpg 500w, https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/greatnews-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">sms by flickr:amf<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ladyamedeus\/2254387859\/\">Web acceptance<\/a> letters  are now old hat: Newly admitted students at Baylor can get a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calgaryherald.com\/Universities+text+acceptance+rejections\/1369662\/story.html\">text message acceptance note<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessmylibrary.com\/coms2\/summary_0286-13921260_ITM\">Since 2006<\/a>, Creighton University has texted acceptance letters (via SMS bulk sender Dynmark), with messages like &#8220;Katie, congratulations. You&#8217;ve been admitted to Creighton!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Princeton&#8217;s acceptance notes made news a while back:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/bboard\/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00007Q&#038;topic_id=1&#038;topic=Ask+E.T.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/yes.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"yes\" width=\"500\" height=\"504\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/yes.jpg 500w, https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/yes-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/yes-297x300.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSource: Howard Wainer, &#8220;Clear Thinking Made Visible: Redesigning Score Reports for Students,&#8221; Chance 15 (Winter 2002), pp. 56-58. via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/bboard\/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00007Q&#038;topic_id=1&#038;topic=Ask+E.T.\">Tufte<\/a>. Wainer is also the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/53926612\">Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures<\/a>, a very readable classic in statistics and information visualization. If you&#8217;ve <em>meant<\/em> to read Tufte but keep putting it off, this is the book for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web acceptance letters are now old hat: Newly admitted students at Baylor can get a text message acceptance note. Since 2006, Creighton University has texted acceptance letters (via SMS bulk sender Dynmark), with messages like &#8220;Katie, congratulations. You&#8217;ve been admitted to Creighton!&#8221;. Princeton&#8217;s acceptance notes made news a while back: Source: Howard Wainer, &#8220;Clear Thinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[102,100,103,101,104,105],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher-education","tag-acceptance-letters","tag-admissions","tag-baylor","tag-mobile","tag-sms","tag-text-messaging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}