3 way coincidences

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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.

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One Saturday I went on a mushroom and fungi hunt something I had always wanted to do. The following Monday I began a further education course. during coffee I sat down with two of the other students. We were all strangers to each other. I told them about my fungi hunt. Suzy who was involved with equine therapy picked up the conversation and mentioned that the writer of the Horse Whisperer book had recently been taken seriously ill after eating mushrooms.. Nothing remarkable save for the horsey link .. Until the third person sitting at the table said ..the writer was a member of her family
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:43:11 +0000Coincidence ID:3954