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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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A few years ago my husband and a friend had a small consultancy with a company near my sister in Lancashire ( we live in Berkshire). Then this company was bought up by a bigger company in Macclesfield. I accompanied my husband on this one last trip to finalise the research. The weather was bad so I decided to go to Cheshire Oaks - a large shopping village near Chester. I phoned my sister to see if she could meet me but her husband said she was visiting a friend in France. I decide to go anyway. Halfway round I bumped into my sister. She and her friend had come back early and gone on their way from the airport. She hadn't spoken to her husband and had no idea I was even in Cheshire. This shopping village is about 50 miles from her home and quite a distance from where I was staying . Also it is very large so if I'd gone a bit later or in a different direction we'd have missed each other
Date submitted:Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:08:15 +0000Coincidence ID:5675
