Neighbours

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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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Born in Oak Park, Illinois, I moved to England in 1969. I decided to visit Hampton Court via the then Green Line coaches. There was always a queue, but this time I began chatting to the girl behind me. Having established that she was also American and also from Oak Park, she suddenly said 'your name is Valerie and your mother is Lillian. She owns Lillian's Beauty Salon.' It turned out that although I lived at number 46 Lake Street and she at number 48, and even though her mother and mine were best of friends, she and I had never met owing to the fact that I went to the public schools and she to the catholic ones. We'd lived next door to each other for 20 years and never knew it.
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Date submitted:Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:18:07 +0000Coincidence ID:7822