Janthy
As of the 23rd May 2022 this website is archived and will receive no further updates.
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.
1) Name/birthday coincidences: Our son's wife has the same two Christian names as his aunt and shares the same birthday with her, while he has the same birthday as our son-in-law.
2) Meeting in an unlikely place: I had lost contact with an American friend after she left Hong Kong where I lived. On a brief trip to London (where our son was undergoing a cardiac catheterisation at Gt Ormond St Hospital), we paid a visit to Fortnum & Mason. Coming in from bright sunlight to the dim exterior, I recognized my American friend, bending down & looking at something in a display case.
3) Our best friends' daughter invited her old school friend to stay with her parents in Hong Kong (which we had left some years before). The friend took along her new boy friend who unexpectedly turned out to be our nephew. They are now married.
Date submitted:Sat, 20 Oct 2012 05:39:24 +0000Coincidence ID:6574
