Over 5,000 miles away!
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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.
Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.
Circa 1980, I lived on the top floor of a London block of flats. The only neighbours I knew and regularly visited for afternoon tea was a family who lived on the ground floor.
My work took me to Zimbabwe (or Rhodesia as it was then) for about a month. Sitting in a Harare bar, I was invited to join a group of local Spanish Africans where I struck up a conversation with a young woman. One thing led to another and we had a sexual relationship for the duration of my stay, during which time she invited me to a family party where, conversing with her mother, I discovered that I was ‘friends’ with my London neighbour’s niece.
Date submitted:Mon, 08 Oct 2012 23:31:33 +0000Coincidence ID:6506
