Boat train coincidence
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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 summer, 30 years ago, my sister and I were travelling back from France in the carriage of the boat train. We shared the carriage with a couple in their late teens like us. We talked a little. When I returned to Sheffield Poly in the September, I saw the woman again on my campus. I was so amazed that I went over to talk to her. She lived on the same campus and actually lived in the room I had lived in the previous year.
Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:51:04 +0000Coincidence ID:4189
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