OPEN TO CHANCE
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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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I open myself up to chance and randomness a number of times each day. Maybe this is partly why I have experienced so many coincidences; this is the 7th I have described here. This morning on the train I was talking to a man from Sudan who was listening to some music, from Sudan. There is a singer, Abdel Gadir Salim, who I enjoy from Sudan but I could not remember his name at the time. The man on the train was listening to Abdel Kariem (pronounced Abdul Karim). I had not heard of that singer but earlier this morning I was writing to a friend about a newly released CD by an influential Indian singer whose best recordings were made 1934 -1935, but never released until this month outside of India. (He died in 1973.) The name of the influental Indian singer was Abdul Karim Khan.
Date submitted:Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:23:41 +0000Coincidence ID:6087
