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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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I have two coincidences for you.
1.
I grew up near Glasgow and when I was in my twenties I went to live in the Shetland Islands. One evening during dinner in a hotel in a remote part of Shetland the conversation turned to curly hair. I remembered a girl I had been friendly with at school whose hair was so curly she was teased about it and wondered what she was doing as we had completely lost touch . We finished our meal and as we walked into the hotel foyer my friend Fiona was standing there. Not only that - she was the chef who had just cooked our meal.
2.
My husband and I were on a walking holiday in the Lake District, we had set off from our cottage to climb a hill, the weather was good so we got a bit carried away and did a second hill. By the time we'd finished it was getting dark and we were quite a long way from where we were staying so decided to hitch a lift It was a quiet road but we stuck out our thumbs and the first car to come along stopped. The driver turned out to be an old university friend and flatmate of my husband, someone he hadn't seen in years. We got a lift right to the door!
Date submitted:Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:51:45 +0000Coincidence ID:5703