An Encounter Remembered
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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.
Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.
After two years working with a colleague, we got chatting about cars, and he related the story of a rather unusual "traffic lights grand-prix" about 25 years earlier. I related a similar story, and we realised that we were describing the same event from the two different cars! We didn't know each other in those days, and were living about 100 miles from where we work now.
I relate this story in a bit more detail, and try my own analysis of the probability calculations, on my blog:
http://www.andrewj.com/blog/2011/what-are-the-chances-of-that/
What do you think?
Date submitted:Thu, 22 Nov 2012 06:43:31 +0000Coincidence ID:6691
