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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.

Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.

Back around 1970, when I was at university a group of us were talking. One student, who'd been brought up in New York, was saying that whenever he mentioned that, someone would say 'I know someone in New York - do you know so and so?' He said that this was stupid as New York was such a large city. He said it's like me saying to you, you're from London do you know and he mentioned a woman's name. I said, well I was at school with someone called that, so we compared notes and it did turn out to be the same woman.
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