I can beat every meeting coincidence....
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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 1974 I took up a Fellowship at Ann Arbor, Mich, USA. Apart from my colleagues at AA, I knew only one other American well: Rick Schaffer, whose Ph.D I'd co-supervised in the UK. He'd returned to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
On Thanksgiving weekend, I traveled to Chicago to visit relatives. They took us out to a 'theatre-diner', where you get supper and then see a show. There, of course was Rick with his family. Co-incidence enough perhaps, except that after supper we all trooped into the theatre and Rick and I produced adjacent tickets: T14 and T15.............
I know a bit about probability, I'm Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at PSI/Westminster, but I still recall those tickets with superstitious awe.
Best wishes
Alan Marsh
Date submitted:Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:06:39 +0000Coincidence ID:6563
