OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Are the Non-Religious Under-Represented by Australian PMs?

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.

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Hello, Operator? Do You Have a Crossed Line?

Do we really need to operate?

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Data entry? Here’s what I think of Data entry!

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

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Age, Membership Length and Reputation Distribution on StackOverflow

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.

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Categories: Doubleplus Geek,Observation
Tags: graphs, stackoverflow, statistics

Mops versus Height

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

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Chaos Theory References over Internet History: Exploring your world with graphs

Categories: Doubleplus Geek
Tags: chaos theory, graph, internet, memes, Observation, statistics

Clarke References over Internet History: Exploring your world with graphs

D&D References over Internet History: Exploring your world with graphs

Is Google Search sexist?

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

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Categories: Geek,Observation
Tags: experiment, Google, names, sexism, statistics, web

Astro-il-logical

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.

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