Pete Churchill
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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.
In 1998, I went with my family to Australia for a holiday. There were no plans except to go scuba diving on the Great Barrier reef. We ended up in 1770 purely because we had never stayed in a town that was a number. When we went out on a boat trip we ended up in a glass bottomed boat when a chap with a Australian accent said he recognised my Somerset accent and pin pointed it to within a few miles. I said you could only do that if you were local to the area, so he told me that he had emigrated from Wiltshire 30 years before, when I asked where, he said Lea. I said my nephew and niece went to school in Lea, when I told him their surname, it turned out that he went to school with my Brother in Law! The funniest thing was that he booked on the same trip as a pure spur of the moment decision and hadn't had another day off in years.
Date submitted:Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:19:41 +0000Coincidence ID:6186
