Lofty dreams

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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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We were having work done on our house and had emptied the loft. I was sitting looking at photos we had taken of our honeymoon in New York years earlier, particularly those of my husband and I outside the World Trade Centre buildings. As I looked up from the photos a newsflash appeared on the TV to say a plane had flown into one of the towers. A shiver ran down my spine as I looked back from the photos to the TV screen in disbelief. Also When I was young I went on holiday with my Mum & Dad. One night I had a dream that our family home had been burgled. As we were pulling on the drive when we arrived home from our holiday the neighbour came out to break the news that our house had been burgled and on the same night that I dreamt about it!
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