Friend In Common

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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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For many years I had a musical friend (we both played in the same amateur orchestra) who I stayed with on occasions at her parents' house. Some 40 years later (having moved from the South-East to the West Country) and now doing freelance office work at a local farm, I was talking to my co-worker of a number of years, and she was telling me about a recent weekend away visiting a friend who happened to live in the same village as my friend of 40 years ago. It turned out that my friend and her family (who had since moved) had lived next door to this friend of this co-worker, and they knew each other extremely well.
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Date submitted:Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:44:06 +0000Coincidence ID:5128