A Hong Kong / Hereford connection

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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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A couple of close friends holidaying in Hong Kong took a Star ferry Crossing and found themselves sitting beside a friendly, middle-aged Chinese man with whom they soon began to converse. he asked them where they lived in England, and on hearing that it was Herefordshire he said that he knew it well. They were somewhat surprised, and then learnred that he had been articled, as a trainee Chartered Accountant, to one of the partners of a firm in Birmingham, and had been sent many times to Hereford on audit. That partner was me.
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