Cousins reunited
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.
While working as Local Studies Librarian in Waltham Forest one Friday afternoon in 2006, I made separate appointments for two couples. They didn't know one another and had different surnames, but when they got talking they found that two of them were cousins researching the same family line, and had been in touch by email. The library is very small so we can't accommodate more than 8 people at a time, and to the best of my knowledge neither couple visited before or afterwards. At closing time, we had to ease them out very gently, and recommend some good pubs and restaurants! Unfortunately I don't remember the exact date, or their names.
David
Date submitted:Sat, 19 May 2012 15:01:25 +0000Coincidence ID:6363
