Mr Rees
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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 grandaughter explained at Christmas how she had come to buy her brother a pea coat as a present. None of the other 10 of us there, spanning three generations (I'm 80), had heard of this name for a short overcoat and we had a short discussion about it. (Two of us had studied linguistics to degree level and beyond). The following day after watching Great Expectations on TV I went to check the novel for a particular episode by the Thames (Ch 14). The second sentence I read was "We had our pea-coats with us . . ."
Date submitted:Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:44:25 +0000Coincidence ID:5868
