broken ringpull
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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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As a student my flatmate had come across the word tolerance in a business textbook and had asked me what it meant due to the fact I was studying engineering. Being students I used the example of beer can ring pulls to explain. If the lid is stamped to thick the ring pull breaks without opening, stamped to thin and the lid breaks ruining the can before it leaves the factory etc etc etc. Of course my very first can that evening the ring pull broke without opening the can.
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<p>Manufacturers will have data on how unlikely can failures are but I think I most enjoyed the indefinable juxtaposition of me using it as an example making this quite so coincidental.
Date submitted:Sun, 23 Jun 2013 12:56:38 +0000Coincidence ID:7085
