Laurence Errington
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.
Forty years ago (when I was a university student, my good friend lost her cat just before she had to return to Germany.
Three months later, I was living in a different place about 2 miles away, and my friend had come back to visit for a week or so. As one was wont to do, we decided, late at night to visit a friend who lived very near to where we used to live. As midnight approached, and we were about to turn the corner leading to where we had lived, we speculated on how wonderful it would be to find the cat.
On turning the corner, there was the cat sitting in the middle of the road. Owner and cat were reunited and she returned to Germany with her pet.
It's the happiness of this story of that I particularly like.
Date submitted:Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:03:32 +0000Coincidence ID:7013
