Radio mingles with reality

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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 was trying to sleep in late one summer morning after a late shift (I'm a Radio 4 announcer) but the cat in my neighbours garden was scaring a nesting blackbird who was emitting a non-stop high-pitched screeching alarm call. It was driving me mad so I got up, slammed the bedroom window closed and turned my bedside radio on at full volume in the hope of drowning out the noise. I thought I was going nuts. The blackbird call continued - on the radio. Radio 4 was broadcasting a Natural History Unit programme on how to recognise garden birds from their calls!
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