New neighbour, shared holiday home
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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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As a girl, at the age of 10, I moved with my brother to live with adoptive parents 50kms away from where we spent our early childhood. One day during our first week living in the new family, we went out to play in the garden and found that the neighbour had children of similar ages. When we got talking about where we had been on our recent summer vacations, we realised that we been going on holidays every summer to the very same camping site as our new neighbours at the seaside, just during different weeks and were able to compare stories and photos together.
Date submitted:Sun, 21 Sep 2014 20:12:09 +0000Coincidence ID:7788
