It's a small world

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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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Last summer, a close friend of mine came to stay with us in our French home. While there, we took her to a bar run by two friends of ours, one of them English. My friend is a classically trained musician with an interest in music therapy. She lives in Suffolk. The Englishman who runs the bar discovereed that his best friends live in the same tiny village in Suffolk as my friend. In subsequent conversation it emerged that another very good friend, who is Bristol based, of the barkeeper, is one of my Suffolk friend's key contacts in her music therapy work.
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:50:53 +0000Coincidence ID:4253