An incredible chance meeting

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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 company which I was jointly managing was in dispute with its JV partner. By chance the company was invited to a presentation meeting in London. As a result of the JV dispute I decided to send one of our staff to this meeting at very short notice. After the presentation he was invited to a table for lunch and introduced to other people on the table. He was introduced to a fellow Wolves supporter and enquired where he lived. It turned out that they lived next door to each other as small children and incredibly shared the same father! They had a long chat and on leaving the meeting agreed to stay in contact and meet up at a later date. One week later the guy he met at the table, which turned out to be his brother, was tragically killed on a quad bike.
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Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:11:56 +0000Coincidence ID:4900