Archive Odd Statistical Snippet of the week: Voltaire and the statistician who won the lottery and proved that the earth is not round I was listening with half an ear (as one does) to Melvyn Bragg’s academic-intellectual-historical-philosophical-scientific educate-us-all-in-things-that-every-civilised-person-ought-to-know-but-probably-doesn’t…Julian ChampkinMay 4, 2012