The Answer's Always Right In Front Of You
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.
One afternoon, I was trying to remember the word often used to describe a fluctuating economy. I pulled out a thesaurus and looked up the word 'fluctuate,' I read the Wikipedia article on 'economics,' I tried to find newspaper articles; surprisingly, none of these sources employed the word I was trying to remember. The following morning--not 24 hours later--I walked into the kitchen to find a shoebox from a shoe company called Volatile. I could not believe that I received the answer to my question in the most unusual of ways, and in such a quick time frame!
Date submitted:Wed, 24 Feb 2016 19:31:49 +0000Coincidence ID:8455
