oh, no not again!

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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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My sister and I are 9 years apart, myself being the younger. When we both lived at home in the 70's, we would both catch separate buses into Worcester city and return at different times. Then getting ready for an evening out we would both emerge from our bedrooms wearing identical outfits. This happened so frequently that I would refuse to clothes shop on the same day as my sister as I was fed up with constantly wearing the same clothes as her. The other coincidence that regularly happened, I would walk in from work singing a particular song only to find that my sister was not only singing the same song but was in fact at the same point in the song as I was. Spooky! Patricia Gunnell
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Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:53:04 +0000Coincidence ID:4757