Mannah from Heaven?

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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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In 1975 my then husband and I were on Sicily, we teamed up with an American we had met and decided to climb Mount Etna. Not realising how far it was to the crater I found myself flagging, we thought we couldn't be too far away because of the smell, but we decided to turn back to be on the safe side. We stopped to have a rest before we set off back down and I duly went behind a rock for a comfort call. Lo and behold there were 6 oranges in a pile on the floor. Why? Why did I choose that rock? Who had put them there? I will never know the answers to those questions but after 2 oranges each we had the energy to carry on and complete our mission.
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Date submitted:Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:33:51 +0000Coincidence ID:5355