History Educational Triumvirate
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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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I am the Head of 6th form in a school. My colleague, head of higher education and careers, is 25 years my senior. We are both Historians by training. My colleague's assistant is aged somewhere in between our age range. When discussing the university of Manchester History department recently, we ended up talking about a lecturer there, who has been in the limelight recently for some indifferent behaviour.
The coincidence is thus: The head of careers taught the individual from Manchester; his secretary was in the same school year as the Mancunian (at a different school to that at which the colleague taught him); I was taught by the same person at Cambridge.
Apart from the ages making this possible, surely this is odd?
Date submitted:Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:20:44 +0000Coincidence ID:5588
