Captain Robin M

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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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Many years ago, during a quiet time operating a flight between Singapore and Sydney, a passenger asked to visit the flight deck. I put aside a letter I was just composing to the commitee of a small village in Hampshire of about 1000 people to where I had just moved, asking for membership of the cricket club. The gentleman arrived on the flight deck ( in the good old days before 9/11) and during the ensuing conversation it transpired that not only did he come from Ropley (the village in question) but he was also the Chairman of the cricket club. I handed him my letter in person. Job done.
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