name, place, occupation snap (after watching tails you win!)

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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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having always been fascinated by co-incidence, jung and the i'ching, synchronicity, randomness, chaos and chance i watched your program (tails you win) on iplayer with great enjoyment. i was struck by your collecting of co-incidences as i remembered a story about a man collecting co-incidences who found that they increased in incidence as a result :D then headed out to meet up with a very special friend named stuart who used to live in london but is originally from canada (specifically calgary) and is a musician. like me, he's mad about cats. he's now living in berlin so it's rather unusual that i get to see him and i was heading out to see him at a rare gig in london. on the way out i saw a light on in the downstairs flat and guessed that the new neighbours had moved in, so stopped briefly to introduce myself and explain about lights/garbage/recycling and general welcome to the 'hood. :) the door was answered by a lovely young man ... from canada (near calgary) named ... stuart ... who is a musician ... engaged to a girl named ... cat (catherine). :D trippy. :D
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Date submitted:Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:15:04 +0000Coincidence ID:6654