Million to one postcard
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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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About thirty years ago my boss collected stamps and old postcards. I was in his office when he showed me his postcard collection - several albums with about a thousand cards in each. Not wishing to appear uninterested, I asked if I could see the reverse of one of the cards and turned one over at random. I could not believe it when I saw it was a card which someone had sent to an aunt of mine in the 1920s.
From Chas Wood, Staffordshire
Date submitted:Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:07:34 +0000Coincidence ID:6698
