Archive for January, 2006

Am I Paddy Or Not Statistics

Monday, January 30th, 2006

I’ve just been working out some stats for Am I Paddy Or Not? and the results are vaguely interesting. There have been 1238 votes and the percentages that think each particular person is Paddy are below.

Paddy 60.7%
Big Jim 26.3%
Phil Collins 24.7%
Stephen Hawking 22.4%
Homer Simpson 20.9%
Adam 20.7%
Martin 19.4%
Kieren 19.2%
Ian 18.1%
Chris 18.0%
Monty Python 13.8%
Anne 13.6%
Louise 13.5%
Bhagesh 12.1%

So 60% of people correctly identified Paddy as being Paddy, but over a quarter thought that Jim was Paddy. That’s probably because of their similar haircuts. A similar percentage also can’t tell the difference between Paddy and Phil Collins. I think we all thought that figure would be higher.

Bhagesh is the person who should be happiest. He’s least likely to be mistaken for Paddy. Surprisingly, Louise and Anne resemble Paddy more.

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New House 2

Monday, January 16th, 2006

It turns out the house we had an offer accepted on last month needs a bit more work than we expected (not least a new roof). But the good news (for us anyway – not so good for the owner of the other house) is that we’ve found somewhere else. We had an offer accepted today. This one isn’t so close to the station, but it has the advantage of having an extra bedroom and not needing any work doing whatsoever. So Louise will just have to emulate Sarah Beeny in some other way.

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Ensembl 2006 Paper

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

It’s seven years since I left science and five years since I last had my name on a scientific paper, but, despite my best efforts, it’s happened again. I’m sure you’re all avid readers of Nucleic Acids Research, but if not then have a look at the Ensembl 2006 paper.

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