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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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We were travelling to a suburb of London in my father's vintage car and stopped at motorway services. Someone stopped and complimenting my father on the car, chatted a little with him. We continued on our journey went to several places when we arrived, and several hours later we need to find a particular road. We slowed to ask a pedestrian if they knew where this road was. He was the same person who had admired the car earlier in the day. (He recognised the car, my father didn't initially recognise him.) The purpose of his journey had been to visit his brother for lunch. After lunch they had decided to go for a walk and were exactly at the point where we decided to ask for directions at the time we looked for someone to ask. This was in the summer in about 1984.
Date submitted:Wed, 01 Jan 2014 07:19:13 +0000Coincidence ID:7372
