The Apprentice

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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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This happened to my late father about 40 years ago. Waiting at the carousel after a plane trip from the Isle of Man to Liverpool, a chap approached my father and asked whether he had a car and, if so, whether he could give him a lift to the city centre. Whilst chatting during the journey, the chap, now living in Devon, asked my father where he was from originally. When my father answered 'Stockport', the chap said that he had been an apprentice painter and decorator there in the mid '40s to a man named 'John C.' Who was the painter in question? None other than my maternal grandfather! When the passenger got home, he sent my parents an etching of Brixham Harbour as a thanks and with fond memories of his apprenticeship.
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