Fancy meeting you here
As of the 23rd May 2022 this website is archived and will receive no further updates.
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.
This coincidence starts with myself travelling from Melbourne, Australia to My Thuan, Vietnam to visit a construction site where I met a man from New Zealand, who had been working in Sydney. Then we parted thinking we might never meet again, until...
Twelve months later in Hong Kong for a stopver en route to the UK I went to a Rugby Sevens match with a friend who lived in Hong Kong. The Rugby match was in a stadium that seated 38,000 people and we had two seats in the mid-tier seating.
The man from New Zealand arrived in Hong Kong for a weekend to attend the Rugby Sevens and had bought his ticket from Vietnam, and his ticket was for the seat directly in front of me (out of the 38,000 available for him to have been given).
Perfectly possible but how to calculate the probability???
Date submitted:Thu, 12 Dec 2013 21:36:10 +0000Coincidence ID:7328
