Bizarrrely Barcelona

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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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Seven years ago in 2004 in October my husband and my twin children and I went to Barcelona to celebrate my 50th. birthday. We travelled to Newcastle Airport to catch the plane and whilst in the queue for airport security I was amazed to find an old friend and her son who I had worked with for 15 years as a teaching colleague in a school in Carlisle directly behind us. We had not been in contact apart from Christmas cards each year. They were travelling to Barcelona as well to study the art of Gaudi as her son was taking an A level in the History of Art.
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