MRS DIANA H

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.

a close relative had died and we were trying to contact a next of kin who was on holiday in florida. no-one knew her contact address or phone number so we had given up. our daughter and family were also on holiday and had gone to an office to collect the key to their accomodation. while waiting, my daughter became aware of another couple. on hearing the man's voice, she enquired if his name was Jim.(she had only met him once before, several years earlier at a family wedding )it was him and he was the husband of the lady we were trying to contact. my daughter was unaware of the death in the family but when she rang to say who she'd just met, i sent her after them to relay the sad news
Total votes: 228
Date submitted:Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:56:29 +0000Coincidence ID:4975