Purple carrots
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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.
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I was watching Have I Got News for You on iPlayer and they had reached the missing words round. The first sentence was ‘blank’ used to be purple, scrawny and pungent, and the missing word answer turned out to be carrots. Then the picture suddenly froze and so while I was waiting for the bandwidth to return I glanced down at my local paper. It was open on page 37 and the first thing I looked down at was a headline saying ‘Antequera Produces The First Purple Carrot Gin’.
Date submitted:Wed, 21 Mar 2018 21:21:23 +0000Coincidence ID:9937
