50 years on!
As of the 23rd May 2022 this website is archived and will receive no further updates.
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.
Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.
I recently spent two weeks in a remote holiday cottage in Kintyre,Scotland. I got into conversation with a gentleman who was living permanently in one of the other cottages and found out that he used to live in Bournemouth,Dorset where I have always lived.When he told me the name of the road in which he had resided this rang a bell as it is a very small close. I then asked him if he had been a driving instructor in the early sixties. He confirmed that he had run a small driving school and I was able to tell him that he had taught me to drive in 1960 ,getting me through the test first time! I had not seen him since the day I passed my test.
Date submitted:Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:44:50 +0000Coincidence ID:5803
