Forgetting "amnesia"

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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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I am a writer, and one day was working while on a train. I simply could not remember a word I needed to use, although I could knew exactly what the word meant. After struggling for a couple of minutes, I looked down, and there was a scrap of paper on the floor with that very word written on it. The word, ironically, was "amnesia".
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Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:19:27 +0000Coincidence ID:4629