OddThinking

A brief study in which I compare the professed religion of Australian Prime Ministers to the professed religion of Australians over the past 50 years.

Do we really need to operate?

The most challenging part of the data-entry was keeping focussed on such a tedious task. Allow me to illustrate how desperate I got.

Inspired by a post there, I wrote a simple web-crawler that looked at the age, membership length and reputation of the users of StackOverflow.

I describe the method below, for people who like hearing about software. I graph the results below for people who like looking at colourful graphs. At the bottom, I have a quick conclusion for people who just want the summary.

Why the hell won’t anyone sell me a damn mop with a handle that comes up past nipple height?

Is Google objectifying women, by suggesting the most important thing about them is photos of their bodies?

In 1995, I read a scientific paper in a journal – a real, live, on-the-shelf-in-a-library journal – that was to become the article that I have cited the most, ever.