Connection across the continents
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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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I've travelled a lot during my life and had lots of coincidental meetings. This is one of the most random! After living for a few years in Japan, I moved to London where I met up with one of my best friends from New Zealand. She was working in a pub in London and invited me out for drinks with some Irish friends she'd met there. One of the Irish guys had also been recently living in Japan. That in itself is quite a coincidence - but when we compared notes we discovered we'd been living in neighbouring towns in Japan, and had both attended the same Halloween party at a club in a nearby city, Maebashi, the previous year! We'd both been in Halloween costume so we didn't remember seeing each other, but no doubt shared the same dance floor at some point during the night!
Date submitted:Thu, 10 Dec 2015 06:08:04 +0000Coincidence ID:8328
