The Lost Diamond
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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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Several years ago, when I was nine, our family was standing and singing in church. My mother was holding my dad's hand, and she happened to look down and notice that the diamond had fallen out of her engagement ring. She began to panic and she searched her bag, the area around her, and even retraced the steps she had taken that day- but alas, the diamond was not to be spotted.
She was rather distraught on the way home, and when we arrived she searched the path to the door. I went ahead inside, and as I crossed the threshold, I looked down and there in the doorframe was a little glimmering speck. I picked it up and it was the diamond! Of all the places the diamond could have been lost, it had landed just inside the house and I had immediately seen it right when we got home.
Date submitted:Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:25:16 +0000Coincidence ID:6297
