After fifty years

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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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I lived in a small hamlet of about thirty people in Shropshire.In our lane there were five houses. Four of them changed hands in about three years. All of the newcomers were retired. In conversation, we discovered that six of the eight newcomers had been at school within three miles of each other in North-West London. Furthermore the wife of one couple, who had moved to Shropshire from Northumberland, and the husband of their next-door neighbours, who had moved to Shropshire from Devon, had actually shared a desk at a primary school in Harrow.
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Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:31:57 +0000Coincidence ID:4687