有一天,乔治在删除垃圾电子邮件的时候,看到这样一个标题:令人吃惊的足总杯比赛预报。他点开了它,里边写着:亲爱的球迷,我们知道你是个怀疑论者,凡事不会轻易相信,可我们确实已经设计出了绝对准确预知足球比赛结果的奇妙方法。今天下午,英国足总杯将进行第三轮比赛,对垒的是考文垂队和谢菲尔德联队,我们预报考文垂队将会取得胜利。乔治看过后,轻蔑地一笑,没有当回事。晚上,他收看电视里的比赛结果,考文垂队果然势如破竹地赢了。三个星期后,乔治又收到了那个人的一封电子邮件:亲爱的球迷,你是否还记得,在上一轮足总杯比赛中,我 One day, when George deletes junk e-mail, he sees a headline: astonishing FA Cup predictions. He opened it and said: Dear fans, we know you’re a skeptic and you can not believe everything, but we’ve indeed designed a wonderful way of absolutely predicting the outcome of a football match. This afternoon, the FA Cup will be held in the third round, against Coventry and Sheffield United, and we predict Coventry will win. George saw, with a contemptuous smile, did not take it seriously. In the evening, when he watched the result on television, the Coventry team really won. Three weeks later, George received an email from that person again: Dear fans, do you still remember that in the FA Cup last round, I