"Calculating the efficiency of prayer"

The song Dead Enough for Life by Icon of Coil came on my Pandora, and I heard the line "efficiency of prayer," which made me want to see if anyone had written any snarky/satirical articles about how to "calculate the efficiency of prayer." Unfortunately there were no(!) Google search results for the quoted search terms.

A rough estimate could be calculated with the following simple formula:

Percentage efficiency (or perhaps "miracle rate") = (Number of times prayed for certain thing) / (Number of times the desired outcome has occurred) * 100

My guess is that "miracle rate" for bringing back people from the dead approaches zero, but may actually be a real positive number for self-fulfilling prophesies, like a job interview going well.

Good luck!

MS Outlook 2016 for Gmail

I was trying to set up MS Outlook 2016 to work with Gmail, but the default settings simply do not work.

You will first need to make changes in your Gmail settings that are described here: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229.

Then when setting up your Outlook client, do it manually, and go deep into the settings to change the incoming and outgoing ports to match what are on the page linked above, turning on authentication for outgoing mail.

Next, if you have 2-Step Verification for your Google Accounts (which I recommend you do, for better security), you'll find that your gmail password will not work to connect through Outlook. You will need to add an "App password" for Outlook at this link https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords.
More detailed instructions on how to set up an "App password" for Outlook can be found here: https://www.msoutlook.info/question/902.