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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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Today at 12pm I was running some data at work - I work as a Fundraising Manager at a children's charity - and I wanted to write to some key supporters. I maybe write to this group personally two or three times a year. There are 70 supporters on the list and I recognise many of them by their names. I happened to notice that there was one particular supporter who wasn't on the list, and I went and corrected the data to include them. Then I noticed another was missing. I went to check his record and he'd been archived. I called over to my colleague - why has this donor been archived? As I asked her I received an email from a colleague downstairs letting me know that the donor had passed away.
We have 200,000 records on our database, so to me that we a spooky co-incidence, to be told that he'd died as I was looking at his details on the computer.
Date submitted:Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:40:30 +0000Coincidence ID:6151
