Mrs Shirley 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.

Location coincidence. In early 1970s I was a language student in Stuttgart and befriended a middle-aged German couple who said they had spent many happy holidays at a friend's house in Bristol; a city which was unfamiliar to me. 18 years later, after marrying and living in Birmingham and Gloucester, my family and I moved to Bristol and bought the house we are living in to this day. When I sent change of address details to Germany, my German friends told me that our house was only a few doors up from the one they used to stay in all those years ago - same street. Incredible!
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:45:05 +0000Coincidence ID:3871