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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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20-odd years ago , it was decided that we should play a game of Trivial Pursuit one afternoon. I am not usually a 'board game' person but when I have to, and have a choice, I always opt for the more scientific questions rather than entertainment ones. At one point I had no option but to answer an entertainment question by giving the title of a song and at that precise moment the song started to play on the radio in the background. I tried to think of how many things had to happen to allow this and to me it was mindboggling. The odd time I was caught to play, the decision to play that game, the fact that I was forced to choose that category of question and the one question out of all the entertainment questions in the box. All this to match the radio station playlist at precisely the same time. To me....spooky! And no I didn't win the game. Richard Church
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Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:45:07 +0000Coincidence ID:4650