Jane

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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.

Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.

When I was 18 I met a New Zealander in my home town of Southport Merseyside and when he moved to Perth Australia to live I went with him. One night we were meeting a group of our friends in a bar in the middle of Perth city centre. When we walked in I was absolutely stunned to meet a girl that a couple of years previously I had spent 12 months with at college in my hometown of Southport back in the UK. That in itself was a big "what's the chances of that" moment but then we found out that she was also the new girlfriend of one of our friends.
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