Divine agency
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.
In 1990 I was made redundant from my job as a copywriter in an advertising agency. There was a recession, the only option was to go freelance. My wife, an account director at a different agency, introduced me to some clients, who were starting a business selling fine art prints by mail order. The first ad I created for them, selling (for 'only' £395) a set of six framed laser prints of watercolour sketches of the Loire valley by JMW Turner, was a success, and a few months later my wife and I started our own business. Five years later, things turned bad and we had to call in the receivers. On the day of the creditors' meeting, we entered the liquidator's office and found, hanging around the walls, the set of Turner prints we had started out with.
Date submitted:Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:15:36 +0000Coincidence ID:5719
