Stolen from Twitter: "The grand old Duke of York, he had 12 million quid. He gave it to someone he never met, for something he never did." (View Post)

The other question was pretty tough. Suppose there was a diagnostic test for a virus. The false-positive rate (the proportion of people without the virus who get a positive result) is one in 1,000. Y… (View Post)

Another result I find surprising, is: "MPs were also asked: if you roll a six-sided die, if the rolls are 1,3,4,1 and 6, what are the mean and mode values? Around two-thirds, 64 per cent, of res… (View Post)

South Korea/North Korea -> one awful govt, one good, has led to one of the world's wealthiest and poorest countries to be next door. That's an extreme example, but I would say it's true between we… (View Post)

Sure if we discover oil in the Irish sea that's a bit random... and the economy goes through cycles and shocks (and pandemics), but in the long run the strength of our economy is strongly influenced … (View Post)