Colin MacDonald
As of the 23rd May 2022 this website is archived and will receive no further updates.
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.
Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.
I first worked overseas at the ripe old age of 32, spending a week on a drilling rig offshore from the Danish city of Esbjerg. 3 months later my twin brother also worked overseas for the first time, planting trees outside Esbjerg.
We both live in northern Scotland which has no particular links to Denmark, especially a fairly minor town of 70,000 people. Neither of were looking for work in Denmark at the time, we were sent there by our respective employers.
Date submitted:Tue, 04 Aug 2015 21:36:54 +0000Coincidence ID:8187
