Novel Experience
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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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Sometime between 1970-1972 I was reading the Iris Murdoch novel 'The Nice and the Good'. For some reason I didn't finish this book and thought no more about it. 10-12 years later I got on a tube train in London and sat down. Opposite me was one of the female characters, even though I knew that she was a fictional character and only one I had imagimed there was some intensity or buzz to this recognition - it was her! But the weirdest bit was when she got off 1 or 2 stops later and a guy got on and sat in the seat next to the one she had vacated, got out his book and of course he was reading 'The Nice and the Good'.
Date submitted:Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:46:49 +0000Coincidence ID:6268
