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__The Lady Tasting Tea__ Response- chapter 1 "Chance is the providence of adventurers," Napolean Bonaparte said. While perhaps slightly out of context regarding __The Lady Tasting Tea__, it does explain how chance (i.e. statistics) are important in everyday life. It was interesting to see how a group of people doing something as simple as sitting around drinking tea could start such an experiment that chance has so much to do with. All of the factors and variables add up to make it very unpredictable, yet the lady could still tell every time... Keeping in mind of course, the people sitting at this table drinking tea were all rather brilliant and more than likely were at a 'salon' if such a thing was popular at the time... Many influential people, while sitting around drinking tea have come up with great things at such a salon. For example, Ayn Rand's __The Fountainhead__... The idea came from the people sitting around at her salon, Alan Greenspan former secretary of the U.S. Treasury to be more specific... But moreover, what this book (Lady Tasting Tea) seems to do is show the reader exactly how important statistics is in the real world. It's important in every aspect, from drinking tea to producing fertilizer and is so very applicable to anything and everything. This is why it's worth taking, because throughout one's life it is so important to have a profound, or at least workable knowledge of...

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