On the magazine cover - turn round, and there she is for real

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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 I was at work waiting for my turn to get something done (there was nobody else in the queue), and I idly looked at the front cover of the company magazine and saw a young lady there - engineer of the year. Next thing I knew, I was aware that someone else had joined the queue - and there she was! My question is, what's the probability of having one coincidence like that per year, given that there are so many opportunities for having coincidences?!
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:04:49 +0000Coincidence ID:4104