Australian connection
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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.
Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.
About 30 years ago I did a 6-week locum in Brisbane, Australia (during a year's amalgamated annual leave from my normal job). As I was the locum I of course had to do the Saturday morning sessions in a clinic on the outskirts of the city. On the first Saturday I arrived fairly early as I did not know how long it would take me to drive there. The clinic was in a small shopping precinct which included an estate agency, so to kill time I was looking in its window comparing prices and properties with what I might find in the UK. A man rushed out and suggested I came inside. I explained I was no use to him as I was only filling in time. We both recognized the other was English and after comparing notes it turned out that until he emigrated he had been running the fish and chip shop virtually opposite the hospital in Carshalton Surrey where I normally worked (and in fact did so for the next 25 years).
Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:56:51 +0000Coincidence ID:4717
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