Clueless
BBC News runs a weekly timed multiple-choice quiz: ten news-based questions, with four possible answers, and ten seconds to answer each one.
I got only four correct this time. But I take heart from the fact that none of my choices were guesswork. I knew each of those four answers.* And I'm happy to reveal that Minnie's vibe wasn't one of them. (thumbup)
But it does mean that I got 6/6 stabs in the dark wrong. What are the chances?** (shrug)
* No peeking!
- The robbery took place on the set of Lupin
- The brothers had been lost in the Amazon jungle for four weeks
- The Cambridges are in Belize
- Ferrari has returned to the top of F1 with the first win of the season
** Mathematics isn't my strong point, least of all probability and statistics, but if there are four options, then the probability of randomly selecting the right answer is 1/4. The probablity of selecting the wrong answer is, consequently, 3/4=0.75.
The probablity of doing this six times in six independent trials is, I think, 0.756=0.177978515625, or 17.8%. I don't know if the outcome is influenced by the fact that there are ten questions, and I knowingly answered four correctly, but it could mean that I'm some kind of inverse genius, or cleverness black hole.
Ev'rybody's gotta be good at something. (proud)