Sociology Sleuth Gifts

Thank God for the misfits and dregs of society!

Joan Hickson

"Look, Professor - a stegosaurus!"

"Your assumption that a one in a million chance event MUST be a miracle shows you drastically underestimate the total number of regularly occurring events."

'Of students surveyed, 64% prefer English and 32% prefer math. The fact that these numbers do not add up to 100 may help explain why.'

"This is where things started getting really weird."

Mysteries.

"You call yourselves a demographic?"

"We're sure we've got the right numbers... Now we just need to work out what order to put them in!"

"Light at the end of the tunnel!"

"Let me through... I’m an armchair detective!"

Egyptian Library: 'Every week you take out the same book, Anubis.'

The conspiracy behind conspiracy theories.

"It's a puzzling case, Watson. For all I know, the culprit could be staring me right in the face."

I CAME. I FOLLOWED. I COMMENTED. I SHARED.

"Do you think it's an accident of history that Freemasons live in houses and we live in trees?"

Conflicting Reports

''Rumplestiltskin' sounds like an ALIAS to me!'

'Oh dear. My husband looks suspicious.'

I don't trust that guy.

'Wow, Professor Jones, that's an impressive back-of-the-envelope calculation!'

'I let Facebook and My-Space do most of the leg work. I just park outside houses wearing a trilby.'

'It looks fishy to me.'

'You haven't confirmed the Superstring theory, Blumenkraft - this is a whisker from your beard!'

Anti-Vaxxers aren't stupid. They just need to be convinced!

Reporter #2: plant.

Reporter at a crime scene.

"Dr. Flaubert, I'm from the science police, and I'd like you to answer some questions about your last paper."

Valley of Big Data

Detective Honky

'. . . and 14% said they didn't own a TV set, although I could hear it in the background!'

"Just as we suspected, he's running a dummy company"

"The town has no history, Signore. It was built from scratch three years ago, entirely for the tourist trade."

"Hey Jefferson, just thought I'd stop by to see if you are actually sick."

Boris adjusting the daily stats