London /Wales link.
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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.
On visiting my son in his London flat, I often chatted to the lady responsible foir overs seing some of the properties in his road. One day I asked her if she lived locally, and she told me that she lived on the outskirts of London. She asked me where I lived, and on naming my home town in Wales, she said " What a coincidence, both of my children live in that town." On enquiring about the actual location, we were both surprised to find that her daughter, lived in the same area, and in fact, lived three houses away from me. Needless to say her daughter was equally surprised to hear of the link.
Date submitted:Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:09:10 +0000Coincidence ID:5389
