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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 cat Penguin died a few weeks ago and on new year's eve we were playing a boardgame called the logo game for the first time. There are hundreds of cards (400) in the game and to try and get an understanding of the rules I picked a random card. It had a Penguin logo on which freaked me out a bit. I then picked another card and it also had a Penguin on....two in a row. Amazingly I was just looking up on the website how many cards were in the game so i could include it in the description and someone just came on the tv and said "a baby penguin" at the exact moment I looked at the page!
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Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:07:24 +0000Coincidence ID:4617