lucky break comes in twos

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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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I was flatting with a couple of young lads, both had been fruitlessly searching for work for quite some time and had been getting quite depressed by their situations. Then one afternoon, one lad's phone started ringing, so he went to the front of the house to talk as the second guy's phone also rang, and he went out the back. The first guy was all smiles when he returned to the living room, 'I got a job!' The second guy returned just in time to return the smiles 'So did I!'
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Date submitted:Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:38:42 +0000Coincidence ID:4997