Mrs Jill S
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.
1. From 1967-69 I studied, among other subjects, economics at the Medway College of Technology in Maidstone. My young lecturer and his wife were very good to students and were very popular. We students were shattered when he left his wife to live with one of his mature students. After this I lost track of them all. In 1975 I met my husband-to-be in Lima, Peru. We discovered that the mature student was the wife of my boyfriend's best friend (a naval officer) and that Adrian had played a role in trying to reunite Peter (his best friend) with Christine (the mature student). She had been studying economics at evening classes at the same time as I had been studying in the day. Adrian and I managed to contact David and Christine who had married.
2. I lived in Zambia from 1970-72 and then went on to live in Kenya for a year. From there I travelled to Thailand, and bumped into a former colleague from Zambia in the queue at the airline check-in desk. A few months later, having visited my sister in Australia, I boarded a 'plane at Sydney and sat down next to the same former colleague I had met at Bangkok. All this before the days of mass travel!
Date submitted:Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:32:05 +0000Coincidence ID:5486