A message from 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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After my mother died I was sorting through her papers and came across the rough copy of an amusing poem that she had written and sent to me about five years previously. One of the lines said that she loved me, not a statement that she often made. Where I'd put the copy she'd sent to me I'd no idea. I returned home to Turkey and took the poem with me. A few days later I went upstairs thinking about mum and picked up the poem and sat down and re read it. A little later I went downstairs and into the living room where I saw a piece of paper on the floor. I picked it up and opened it to find that it was the actual poem that mum had sent me. How it came to be in the dining room and on the floor at that particular time I've no idea, but I like to think it was a message from my mother.
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Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:10:10 +0000Coincidence ID:4795