Something in the water?
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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 used the run the national network for (female to male) transsexual men. In 1991, within the space of a few weeks, 2 young 'women'; S & T joined the network. They didn't know each other at all. Research suggests that, of that generation, only 1 in approx 100,000 girls would grow up and decide to undergo gender reassignment to become men.
Both did go ahead and over the next couple of years had gender reassignment treatment.
When these, now, 2 young men did finally meet at one of our national conferences, it turned out they were both born on the same day, in the same hospital in Reading.
We still wonder what was in the water in Reading that year.
Date submitted:Thu, 17 Jul 2014 11:54:09 +0000Coincidence ID:7664
