Avoid redheads!
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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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One Saturday many years ago I went to a party somewhere in north London, where I met a gorgeous redhead who told me she was up from Manchester for a few days. Far too shy to ask for a date, I sat on the stairs all night smoking and getting morosely drunk, as usual. College was a film school in Covent Garden. On the Monday morning I was changing trains during the rush hour at Leicester Square, got into a packed carriage and found myself standing next to the same girl. Imagining this to be an encouraging sign, I asked her out. Reader, is she sitting opposite me now, contentedly knitting bootees? No, we started arguing after half an hour, she spent an uncomfortable night on my floor, left in high dudgeon and I never saw her again. So much for coincidences!
Date submitted:Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:24:02 +0000Coincidence ID:5720
