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.

Artefact Last week, illness induced me to watch a daytime episode of 'Flog It'. An unusual lot - a watch 'chain' made of human hair (Victorian mourning token) was offered for sale at auction. After the programme I returned to the book I was reading, entitled 'Possession' by A S Byatt, and within a few pages I read of an identical artefact, so I was able to picture it perfectly.
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:35:33 +0000Coincidence ID:4299