Double coincidence
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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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Some years ago my husband and I went to work in Nigeria. The local priest offered to take us to meet our nearest English neighbour (60 miles away). On arriving I was astonished to see Fred, my neighbour from my childhood in Leeds. At the same time my husband ran up to him and threw his arms around him. Turned out that when my husband was a student at Leeds University - before we met (in London) - he had lodged with Fred who by that time had married and moved to a different part of Leeds.
Date submitted:Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:37:01 +0000Coincidence ID:6998
