Message from beyond the grave?
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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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My wife passed away Sept' 2009 from ovarian cancer aged 49. I started to take an interest in Colin Fry's
6th Sense TV show on the Living channel. Being a sceptic, in November 2009, I decided to watch Ghost with Whoopi Goldberg Demi Moore Patrick Swayze. My daughter aged 12 was with a friend playing upstairs while I was couch- potatoing lying across the sofa watching the movie. At the point when Whoopi and Patrick arrive at Demi's flat to warn her and the only way she is going to believe in Whoopi's psychic ability is by Patrick asking for a penny from Whoopi that he then slides up the door and into Demi's hand - at that moment I had to pause the movie because my daughter had started to make such a din with her friend. I stormed upstairs to ask them to be quiet. Returning to view the film, to my disbelief, sticking up between the two flat sofa cushion seats was a penny. Nothing unusual from this lying position if other change had been in evidance - but looking underneath the cushions there was absolutely no other change. I've kept the penny!
Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:07:34 +0000Coincidence ID:4281
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