Better late than never

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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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In 1976 I took a customer for lunch in a local pub in Feltham Middx. I was recounting an incident that happened 25 years previously in 1951 while in the army. My final words were " Just after the brigade was sent abroad as he only a couple of months to do he was left behind and that was the last time I saw him". At that very moment the pub door opened and the person in questioned walked in. So I finished by saying "Until now" . It was instant recognition he even remembered my name. He was not local to the area only visiting.
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