Ghost from the past
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.
Our house was chosen at random in the locality by the council to have a residential survey carried out. The guy who called round was from a company in Yorkshire that the council had outsourced the work to. While we were chatting over a coffee he said he was from a certain town in Yorkshire. I told him that my husband had had a friend at university (and we are talking 30 years ago) from that town who had been killed in a car accident in the vacation of his second year. This guy went white and said 'we had all been on a night out. I was travelling in the car behind'. What are the chances of that?
Date submitted:Mon, 18 Nov 2013 17:30:55 +0000Coincidence ID:7276
