Raffle Clean Up
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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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About 10 years ago the company I worked for had a christmas party held at the Daresbury Hotel in Warrington. There were about 70 couples present at the dinner dance and when we were seated ther was an envelopr with 8 different coloured raffle tickets inside. 1 envelope per employee for 8 raffle draws. When the draws were made to my astonishment i actually won 5 out of the 8 prizes. The boos from my fellow workers could be heard across the room as i picked up the 4th and 5th prize.
The host who was the boss then preceeded to anounce another prize donated by the hotel manager, dinner for 2 to the value of £50. All the employees were given a number against there name totalling 70 numbers. The hotel manager was asked to pick a number from 1 to 70, the number he picked was against my name. class absolute class. Still talk about that weird night to today.
Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:44:56 +0000Coincidence ID:3956
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