Family Connection
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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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In about 1952, when I was 10 years old, my family planned a trip to the Los Angeles area from Sacramento to visit my mother's aunt, who lived in Alhambra. My father's mother reminded him that he also had an aunt in the Los Angeles area well and that he should consider visiting her as well. He told her that he didn't know where she lived but that he would call her when we got down there. When we got to mom's aunt's house, she wasn't home, so we went into the back yard to wait for her. My brother found a ball and began kicking it around, and kicked it over the fence. Dad went next door to retrieve it. A woman came out of the house and it was his aunt! Mom's aunt and dad's aunt had lived next door to each other for 20 years and never knew of a family connection by marriage (Mom and Dad).
Gary
Date submitted:Sun, 24 Nov 2013 15:10:53 +0000Coincidence ID:7296
