Geoff Hamilton

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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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At a party some years ago a friend's Mother asked me if I had seen the last edition of the gardening programme presented by Geoff Hamilton, which had been broadcast in tribute to him, following his unexpected death. I told her that as I had no TV I had not seen it, and was sorry to hear he had died. Several weeks later I switched my radio on and heard the announcement of Geoff Hamilton's death, which had only just occurred, and that his last programme would be shown as a tribute to him. When my friend told her mother this she had no recollection of the conversation, and refused to believe it had taken place.
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