Are you stealing my identity?
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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 have a slightly unusual first name and an an unusual spelling of my surname. If I Google myself, I only expect to find myself. Until one day I found someone with exactly the same name. Not only that but he lives in the city where I was born and works as an engineer at the same factory where my parents met, when they were engineering employees there. My mother decided someone had stolen my identity, but it turned out to be a harmless genuine guy from Essex!
Date submitted:Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:35:04 +0000Coincidence ID:6722
