Mr Edward Leonard
As of the 23rd May 2022 this website is archived and will receive no further updates.
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.
Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.
In 1983 I bought a book called The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell. About a year later I lost it. Twenty eight years later, on the 11th of August 2011, I went into the British Heart Foundation shop, in which my daughter works, I picked up a copy of the book I lost and bought it. When I opened it I found it was the actual one I had lost all those years ago. It had my signature and year of purchase on the inside cover.
A few days later I met a friend of mine and was telling him about this coincidence when he told me that I had loaned him the book back in the eighties. He in turn loaned it to one of his work mates who he met recently and had informed him that he donated it to the charity shop.
Date submitted:Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:51:52 +0000Coincidence ID:6989
