Dealt full suit of cards
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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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When I was younger my parents used to play the card game Solo ( a whist type game where all the cards are dealt, 13 to each of the four players). My mother was dealt a complete suit of hearts. Even she managed to make a Royal Abundance ! I'm not sure of the influence of the degree of shuffling or cutting though because people will follow suit to a large extent in playing the game which could lead to some dilution of randomness.
Having watched the programme tonight on BBC4 my abiding thought is that these type of coincidences are inevitable and everyone will experience a few in their lifetime. This is based on t he fact that there must be an almost infinite number of ways and types coincidences can occur, as evidenced by the stories on here, so they will.
Date submitted:Tue, 08 Dec 2015 01:15:57 +0000Coincidence ID:8321
