From here to Australia

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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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In 1996, I was travelling in Australia for the first time when I met a lovely australian bloke. One day he introduced me to one of his friends whose mother came from England. I enquired as to where. "Oh you won't know it, a little town called Redbourn" he said. "Well Redbourn in Hertfordshire is 6 miles from where I live" i replied. Do you know Brache Close, he asked. I replied that I knew the road but that my mum's aunties had lived in the next road to it since the 1920s. "Ask them if they knew XXXX" I was told. They did - they all went to school together..... Not bad 10,000 miles from home....
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Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:38:26 +0000Coincidence ID:4915