'Freudian' coincidence!

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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 daughter and I were watching the film 'Hideous Kinky' from our Sky+ planner (which I had recorded over Christmas) and I was explaining that it was about the Freud family. We talked about them and looked up Esther, Lucien and Ernst Freud as we watched. We read that Ernst Freud's house is now a museum. The film finished and my daughter went upstairs. I deleted the film and the TV switched to the channel it had previously been turned to and I saw a picture of a house and caught the word Ernst. I couldn't believe it that The One Show that day had a piece about the very information we'd just looked up - then a couple of days later I hear about this study.........
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:19:36 +0000Coincidence ID:4204