Meeting Coincidence
As of the 23rd May 2022 this website is archived and will receive no further updates.
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.
In about 1997 I was visiting the BBC in Birmingham for a meeting. I asked for my appointment at the reception and was told to take a seat as I was about five minutes early. Shortly afterwards the receptionist announced my name 'Jonathan Peacock', and I walked up to the front desk only to be met by another man who said, "but I'm Jonathan Peacock". We looked at each other somewhat bewildered.
I was very surprised that someone with the same name was there for a meeting at the same time. Unusual.
Date submitted:Sat, 20 Oct 2012 16:41:31 +0000Coincidence ID:6583
