Photo from 1945

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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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In 1982 my husband David's cousin got married in Israel, but his parents didn't attend, as they were visiting us and their new grandchild in Canada. A wedding guest asked why they were not there, and only then discovered David had married. When she found out my name, she said, "I used to know a medical student with that name, he was at your engagement party, don't you remember?" David's aunt said she didn't ever know him, but she had one photo from that party, folded to fit into an old cigarette case. When she unfolded it, on the hidden bit was my father and his then girlfriend who had taken him to the party. On the visible bit was David's aunt, her future husband and her brother (my father-in-law). Until I met my husband, my father and his did not know one another.
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