Geoffrey Briggs
As of the 23rd May 2022 this website is archived and will receive no further updates.
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.
Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.
A few years ago my wife, her sister and I were travelling in a car on Interstate 5 north from Seattle (where my sister in law lives). For some reason we were talking about social security in the USA which then became a general discussion about social security systems in the world. I remarked that I had once heard that one of the earliest social security systems was in Uruguay. A second or two later a car passed us and, would you believe, the number plate of the car was Uruguay. In the USA of course you can have anything you like on a number plate provided it isn't obscene etc. We were flabbergasted.
Date submitted:Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:16:18 +0000Coincidence ID:7029
