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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.
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I had arranged to meet a colleague in London for work, myself and two others set off from the North of England at 4am for the meeting at 9am, we travelled down by car, so after arriving safely we hopped onto the tube to travel into central London. Now for anyone who has travelled on the tube or metro, those trains ar packed in rush hour, so you can understand how amazed we were to have the colleague we were due to meet get on the same carriage as us on his way to the meeting, given the fact that each train has around six carriages with numerous door, what were the chances of us all been in the same place at the same time? what makes it funny is that there were four witness’s to the strange coincidence.
Date submitted:Sat, 05 Jan 2013 16:25:24 +0000Coincidence ID:6769
