Henry T

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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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On a flight from London to Johannesburg in 1987 I sat next to two brothers who were heading home to Nairobi for the Christmas holidays. They said their name was G, and we talked about school, I being a teacher. I flew on to Johannesburg, and a few days later to Cape Town to visit my younger niece. We went up Table Mountain, walked around and went to the restaurant. A lady approached and said rather hesitantly "Mr T? It's Poppy G." Not a name to forget, and I remembered her well as a matron at the school where I taught. We talked about the school, and after a while the thought struck me: "You haven't got any relatives in Nairobi by any chance?" "Yes", she replied, "My nephew lives there; he has two sons, at school in England...."
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