Dr Stuart H R

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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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30 or so years ago I ran a business retailing new and second hand pianos and a chap came in one Saturday afternoon wishing to trade his old piano in for a new one. Next day on my way to his home on the edge of Nottingham I nipped into a local newsagent, bought the current Exchange and Mart and noticed - quite separately - an old Bechstein upright for sale in a suburb on the other side of Nottingham. So, I called there first and found that the Bechstein had recently been delivered from the home of a recently deceased gentleman who lived down in Southern England, moving there about 50 years previously, and before his move, he and his piano, had previously lived in the very same house as the other chap I was off to visit.
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