Damian Krushner
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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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Last Saturday afternoon I got into my car and put on a Stan Getz jazz CD. About 30 minutes later I was driving and the CD had reached the song: 'Desafinado'. My daughter spoke to me from the back so I turned off the CD to speak to her and the stereo defaulted to the preset radio station - Radio 4. At that exact moment Radio 4 was broadcasting a part of its Saturday play which featured (as background music) none other than Stan Getz's 'Desafinado'. Not only that but it was at very nearly the same part of the song as I had just reached on the CD.
So seemless was the transition from the CD music to radio play music that I initially thought I had bought the CD from hell - no matter what you did you just couldn't turn it off!!
Damian
Date submitted:Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:56:11 +0000Coincidence ID:6587
