From Next door to Loch Lomond - via Australia

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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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When I was in my mid-teens (early 80s) , we spent a family holiday touring around Scotland in August with our family caravan. We had stopped in a decent layby by Loch Lomond to take in the sights - and make a cuppa in the back of the caravan too! As a bored teen I was moping in the caravan and my parents were standing outside when they suddenly started saying hello to some other family and were very excited - and amazed. Because they had bumped into the people who lived next door to them then Mum and Dad first were married and they moved before I was born - to Australia - and were back for a holiday. An absolute cooincidence that they were in Scotland at the same time and then to be in the same layby, at the same time was amazing!!
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:54:25 +0000Coincidence ID:4151