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Introduction
[1]https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-07/uber-fair-work-ombudsman-investigation-contractor-employee/11189828
[2]https://www.wired.com/story/christchurch-shooter-youtube-radicalization-extremism/ [3]https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/22/ai-hiring-face-scanning-algorithm-increasingly-decides-whether-you-deserve-job/
[4]https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/26/17285058/predictive-policing-predpol-pentagon-ai-racial-bias
[5]See any one of the studies described in Utopia for Realists, by Rutger Bregman
[6]https://australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/P245-Company-tax-what-the-evidence-shows.pdf
[7]https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/
[8]More detail about this project can be found in Chapter 6
Chapter 1
[9]https://theconversation.com/the-healing-power-of-data-florence-nightingales-true-legacy-134649
[10]https://www.smh.com.au/national/remember-sports-rorts-here-s-why-we-mustn-t-forget-that-shameful-episode-20200925-p55z8x.html
[11]https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/21/sports-rorts-coalition-approved-at-least-six-grants-without-an-application-form-documents-reveal
[12]https://www.wired.com/story/buying-giphy-gives-facebook-new-window/
[13]https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/20/more-than-25-million-people-have-opted-out-of-my-health-record
[14]https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2020-06-17/covidsafe-contact-tracing-app-test-documents-rated-poor-iphone/12359250
[15]https://www.sbs.com.au/news/scott-morrison-urges-all-australians-to-download-covidsafe-app-says-it-s-the-ticket-to-easing-restrictions
[16]For more on this theme, I recommend Automating Inequality, by Virginia Eubanks, and Weapons of Math Destruction, by Cathy O’Neil
[17]https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/17/21372045/uk-a-level-results-algorithm-biased-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic-university-applications
[18]https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03847-z
[19]https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03847-z
[20]https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/22/ai-hiring-face-scanning-algorithm-increasingly-decides-whether-you-deserve-job/
[21]The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain, Gina Rippon, Vintage, 2020.
[22]http://prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009.pdf
[23]https://theconversation.com/the-reinhart-rogoff-error-or-how-not-to-excel-at-economics-13646
[24]https://www.businessinsider.com.au/graph-shows-georgia-bungling-coronavirus-data-2020-5?r=US&IR=T
[25]https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-22/working-from-home-employee-monitoring-software-boom-coronavirus/12258198
[26]https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/microsoft-productivity-score-insights-that-transform-how-work/ba-p/969722
[27]https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/good-bad-measuring-worker-output-real-time
[28]Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil, Made by Humans by Ellen Broad, and Automating Inequality by Virginia Eubanks
[29]https://biometricmirror.com/
[30]https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/31825/blind-woman-sues-cba-over-touchscreen-pos-machines
[31]https://fortunly.com/statistics/gig-economy-statistics#gref
[32]https://theconversation.com/facebook-is-tilting-the-political-playing-field-more-than-ever-and-its-no-accident-148314
[33]https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/26/facebook-ignored-internal-warnings-its-algorithms-were-intensifying-divisiveness
[34]https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp1314/43rdParl
Chapter 2
[35]For alarming evidence on that front, I recommend Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
[36]It’s important to note that, state-by-state the Australian response was evidence based. The Federal Government was initially keen to follow the USA and the UK on their “herd immunity” path, which directly contradicted the available evidence and has resulted in hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths.
[37]https://sustainable.unimelb.edu.au/news/what-are-the-full-economic-costs-to-australia-from-climate-change
[38]https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-019-01092-y
[39]https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/surgery-is-one-hell-of-a-placebo/
[40]https://medicine.uq.edu.au/article/2017/06/explaining-vaginal-mesh-controversy
[41]https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/12/28/16823266/medical-treatments-evidence-based-expensive-cost-stents
[42]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4800017/
[43]https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/is-taking-aspirin-good-for-your-heart
[44]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4417373/
[45]Bergs J, et al. Systematic review and meta-analysis of the effect of the World Health Organization surgical safety checklist on postoperative complications. BJS 2014;101:150–158
[46]https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/grapefruit-juice-and-some-drugs-dont-mix
[47]https://www.immdsreview.org.uk/news.html
[48]https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/graph.html
[49]https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2535/satellite-data-confirm-annual-carbon-dioxide-minimum-above-400-ppm/
[50]https://www.jstor.org/stable/4314542?seq=1
[51]https://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/189051/Health-effects-of-particulate-matter-final-Eng.pdf
[52]https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-and-levelized-cost-of-storage-2020/
[53]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-66275-4
[54]https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/
[55]https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/article/downloads/ISF_100%25_Australian_Renewable_Energy_Report.pdf
[56]https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-16/renewable-energy-agencies-allowed-invest-low-emission-technology/12670760
[57]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avxm7JYjk8M
[58]https://sustainable.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/2756874/MSSI-IssuesPaper-10_Last-Resort-Housing_2017_0.pdf
[59]https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/Staff-Discussion-Notes/Issues/2016/12/31/Causes-and-Consequences-of-Income-Inequality-A-Global-Perspective-42986
[60]https://www.tai.org.au/sites/default/files/P709%20Tax%20and%20wellbeing%20%5BWEB%5D.pdf
[61]https://www.acoss.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/010218-Cashless-Debit-Card-Briefing-Note_ACOSS.pdf
[62]https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/2/19/21112570/universal-basic-income-ubi-map
[63]https://www.unaa.org.au/2017/06/28/unesco-study-reveals-correlation-between-poverty-and-education/
[64]https://theconversation.com/atars-you-may-as-well-use-postcodes-for-university-admissions-19154
[65]https://www.dese.gov.au/download/1307/review-funding-schooling-final-report-december-2011/1280/document/pdf
[66]https://www.acer.org/au/discover/article/measuring-the-extent-of-out-of-field-teaching
[67]https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/16/09/intrinsically-motivated.
[68]https://doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.142
[69]https://amsi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/researchreport4-maths_anxiety_students_and_teachers.pdf
[70]https://www.swinburneonline.edu.au/online-courses/education/bachelor-education-primary?gclid=Cj0KCQiAwMP9BRCzARIsAPWTJ_Hh4fMpdTmSiVE7hlhPwSTLRXVabJx8teBXrkLjEx_WCqEcoD4ApbsaAuTmEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds (accessed 16 November 2020)
[71]https://handbook.une.edu.au/courses/2021/BEDK6 (accessed 16 November 2020)
[72]https://www.open.edu.au/degrees/bachelor-of-education-primary-education-curtin-university-cur-bed-deg (accessed 16 November 2020)
Chapter 3
[73]https://helix.northwestern.edu/article/thalidomide-tragedy-lessons-drug-safety-and-regulation
[74]https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill/
[75]https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/22778/1/vol63n4-601-616.pdf
[76]https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0163638300000321
[77]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWu44AqF0iI
[78]https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/marshmallow-test/561779/
[79]https://timssandpirls.bc.edu/timss2019/encyclopedia/index.html
Chapter 4
[80]https://www.covid19data.com.au/victoria
[81]https://www.uac.edu.au/assets/documents/atar/usefulness-of-the-atar-report.pdf
[82]https://www.monash.edu/students/handbooks/outcomes
[83]https://www.adelaide.edu.au/learning/resources-for-educators/graduate-attributes
[84]Names have been changed to protect the infuriating.
[85]PISA stands for Program for International Student Assessment. It’s an OECD benchmarking test for 15 years olds around the world. “PISA is the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment. PISA measures 15-year-olds’ ability to use their reading, mathematics and science knowledge and skills to meet real-life challenges.”
[86]https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-09/abs-website-inaccessible-on-census-night/7711652
[87]https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-01/census-2016-why-are-people-worried-about-the-census/7678198
[88]I was not raised to be a heretic. I am self-taught, and occasionally lapse into unthinking obedience.
[89]https://www.ncsehe.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Li-and-Dockery-Schools-SES-Final.pdf
[90]https://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/133971/emmaline-bexley-presentation.pdf
[91]https://www.theage.com.au/education/the-epidemic-australia-is-failing-to-control-20201229-p56qq3.html
[92]https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.5694/mja13.10103
Chapter 5
[93]https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-is-the-sky-blue/
[94]https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hyponatremia/symptoms-causes/syc-20373711
[95]https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106268439
[96]https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/255712#The-BMI-formula
[97]https://elemental.medium.com/the-bizarre-and-racist-history-of-the-bmi-7d8dc2aa33bb
[98]https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/265215#BMI-exaggerates-thinness-in-short-people-and-fatness-in-tall-people
[99]https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/disease-prevention/nutrition/a-healthy-lifestyle/body-mass-index-bmi
[100]https://locusmag.com/2021/05/cory-doctorow-qualia/
[101]https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill/
[102]https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group.php?id=4933
Chapter 6
[103]https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-06/excel-error-which-led-to-uk-coronavirus-test-debacle/12734754
[104]https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Victorian-Senate-ballot-paper-2016.svg
[105]https://www.aec.gov.au/voting/how_to_vote/voting_senate.htm
Chapter 7
[106]https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xfr2YSsFmORn5Jh1LdSe2ASq46Hw7nml_jmaqCdb2IU/edit?usp=sharing
[107]https://stem.pawsey.org.au/
[108]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet
[109]http://www.cleanenergyregulator.gov.au/RET/Forms-and-resources/Postcode-data-for-small-scale-installations
[110]https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
[111]https://www.digitaltechnologieshub.edu.au/teachers/lesson-ideas/integrating-digital-technologies/humpback-whales-what-the-data-reveals
[112]https://www.theage.com.au/national/covid-19-global-vaccine-tracker-and-data-centre-20210128-p56xht.html
Chapter 8
[113]https://teaching.cornell.edu/teaching-resources/engaging-students/problem-based-learning