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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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As a child growing up in Eastbourne I went with my older sister to the beach one Summer's day. As we approached the beach I remarked that it was very windy there and my sister replied with something like "did you say Wendy's here?" I said no and mentioned the wind again but, moments later, when we arrived at our chosen beach, there was her friend Wendy, along with her boyfriend. Only a small coincidence but one I've remembered for almost 60 years.
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Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:03:28 +0000Coincidence ID:4506

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Sun, 15/01/2012 - 12:10pm

I got chatting to a classmate at senior school one day, about 50 years ago, and discovered he was familiar with the Kentish village my Mother was born in. It then transpired that he also knew the street and the particular address that an aunt - my Mother's sister - lived in. Not only that, but that my aunt was also his aunt. It turned out that we weren't blood related but that my aunt's husband was his bloodline uncle.