A cup of tea laid the foundation for modern statistics (wired.com)

My struggle with statistics goes way back. Here's how a cup of tea triggered early statistics thinking

https://www.wired.com/story/how-a-cup-of-tea-laid-the-foundations-for-modern-statistical-analysis-adam-kucharski-proof-book/

Fisher’s exact test, Pearson, confidence interval. The history goes back to tea. Why not? Interesting to hear the history of using statistics to make sense of the world, and how it is now applied in medicine, elsewhere.