Breakfast in Rome
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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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Recently I was on a trip to Rome. I sat at a breakfast table with another lady from the tour who I had not met before. We chatted about out children across the table and established that they happened to work for the same company. I texted my son (who was at work in UK) and asked him if he knew of X (son of the lady sitting opposite me) and he phoned back and said, yes he knew him and not only that, but he was in the same 'team' and happened to be sitting opposite him right at that very moment.
Date submitted:Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:56:54 +0000Coincidence ID:7408
