Country Cottage

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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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For a few months in 1978 we rented a run-down thatched cottage, located in a sparsely populated area of Essex. Several years later, after buying a flat in London, we befriended a young man who lived next door to us. We subsequently lost regular contact with this person but met up again for a meal many years later. He described a cottage that he had recently purchased and renovated, and it became clear that it was the same one that we had rented many years before.
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