French Encounter
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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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My elder daughter Sarah lives in France and when shopping in the one and only shop in a tiny village in the region of the Pyrenrees, she overheard the other two customers speaking in English. On introducing herself she was delighted to hear that they knew the area in which she went to school, St Albans, Hertfordshire. As they also lived in the same region, they became friends of her and her French husband. I had just become engaged to the man who was to be my second husband. On making a visit to my daughter, we were subsequently introduced to the English couple and were amazed to discover that the two men had worked for the same organisation, at the same time, in the U.K.
Date submitted:Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:17:53 +0000Coincidence ID:5851
