Sad Coincidence

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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 very pleased that I had arranged at very short notice a bedroom for my mother in a very good nursing home. I was telling the estate agent who was arranging my new rental property. I knew she had been recently bereaved, but to our mutually-dawning horror it became clear that the reason my mother had a bedroom at short notice was that her father had died two days before we spoke and had vacated the room.
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:34:01 +0000Coincidence ID:3855