Sisterly love
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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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My sister was at University in Sheffield. I was at our parents home in Newcastle, feeling very depressed being in a post-university jobless, moneyless state. I decided to call my sister because I was feeling really miserable and she was the only person I could think of. I rarely call my sister, at that time mobile phones did not exist and our relationship, although intimate when we met, was not at all close in terms of frequency of contact. I phoned her at the shared house she live in. Her housemate answered and said she wasn't in. Five minutes later my phone rang. It was my sister calling from Sheffield. She had been walking down the uni corridoor between lectures and 'had an urge' to phone me. It was totally bizarre - we very very rarely phoned each other as I mentioned.
Date submitted:Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:11:46 +0000Coincidence ID:6869