Bumping into people(1)
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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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15 years ago, while conducting research (into Bayesian reasoning as luck would have it) I briefly worked in a research depertment in Sweden with another researcher. Five years later I was visiting Hong Kong and, while trying to read a map at a large road junction in Kowloon, I inadvertently stepped backwards, bumping into another pedestrian. Turning round to apologise I found it to be the same researcher I had worked with five years earlier in Sweden. We had not travelled together and had no reason in common to be in Hong Kong. [see my second coincidence]
Date submitted:Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:34:01 +0000Coincidence ID:6099
