Same home town but the other side of the world
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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 travelled in S E Asia for a while and one night in April 2010 I stopped in a small Border town in Thailand on the way from Cambodia. The town is called Aranyaprathet. While there I looked for somewhere to eat and stumbled across a bar that was entirely empty aside from the bar owner, who happened to be from Sheffield. My whole family are from Sheffield. After an hour or so of chat another man walked into the same bar who also happened to be from Sheffield. We joked a little about the travelling Yorkshire spirit. Although I wasn't blown away by the coincidence I wondered what the chances were of that happening.
Date submitted:Thu, 14 Jun 2012 01:25:28 +0000Coincidence ID:6421
