Small 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.

Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.

I was on honeymoon with my new wife in Bangkok back in the eighties, enjoying a little lunch at a bar on the corner of Sukhumvit/Soi 15 when a voice rang across the room, "Of all the bars in all the world...." It was an acquaintance from back home in London, who, coincidentally, had brought his girlfriend out to Thailand for a holiday! (Since we're no longer in touch, I wonder what the odds would be that he might post the same story here!!!)
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Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:15:10 +0000Coincidence ID:4933