Enola Gay
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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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A simple situation from a few years ago. I am sitting in my bank reading one of the newspapers provided for customers. There is piped music playing. As I read an item entitled ‘Enola Gay pilot dies’, I become aware that the tune I can hear in the background is Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark’s 1980 hit Enola Gay. This ‘surprising match’ had no personal significance for me, but it is interesting trying to work out the probability of such an obscure news story coinciding with a such a unique musical reference.
Date submitted:Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:26:53 +0000Coincidence ID:6275
