Birthday coincidence and more
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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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My daughter was born in Harold Wood Hospital in 1975 and named Heidi. A nurse mentioned that another baby was born two weeks earlier and shared the same name which was uncommon at the time. In 1978 we moved to Rayleigh and Heidi started preschool. Another little girl called Heidi had also just started and I became friends with her mother. We soon discovered that they both had been born in the same hospital and that Donna had moved house in 1978 and lived 3 roads away. That was not the only coincidence! We both shared the same birthday (03/04/47) and both were married on the same date (06/09/69) and had an older sister with the name Kathleen. I still to this day find it very uncanny. I saw the article in The Mail on Sunday re this study and thought I would like to participate.
Date submitted:Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:17:27 +0000Coincidence ID:5556
