Follow the Leader
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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.
One weekend a few years ago, my parents and I decided to go a large store quite a few miles away in a different town. As we left the house and walked up the driveway, we waved at the next door neighbours who had just got into their car. Naturally we ended up following their car down to the bottom of the road. It wasn't so unusual that we trailed them furthur onto the main ring road out of town either. But we ended up driving right behind them all the way to this particular store!
Date submitted:Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:56:31 +0000Coincidence ID:5688
