Parallel Lives. Birthdays
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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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While working in Malaysia on Rubber Plantations in the 1960's two of my Planter colleagues shared the same birthday as mine, one exactly 10 years older and the other 20 years older than myself. At the time my circle of expatriate friends probably numbered no more than 100. What are the odds?
Date submitted:Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:13:37 +0000Coincidence ID:5484
