How often do coincidences go unnoticed ?
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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 sat with a new work colleague who had come from abroad. I had known her for 6 months. Her holiday had just been cancelled due to unrest in the area she was to visit. I said she could consider going to a remote country B off the tourist trail, a place I had visited 20 years ago as an alternative. She said she had visited it 20 years before aswell. I asked where and she had made exactly the same journey. I said when and she recalled the same month, we looked at one another & then we recognised each other. We had met up and travelled together for 5 days 20 years previously. It was only because her holiday had been cancelled that we found out.
Date submitted:Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:50:43 +0000Coincidence ID:5887
