Stranger on a train

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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 was on the tube in London when I noticed that a man kept looking at me when I got of I made sure he wasn't following me as his stares had worried me. The following Sunday I went to my young nephew's birthday celebration which was taking place at the hospital where my Dad was. This man was there. He is my nephew's godfather and had been staring at me as he thought he recognised me. (We had only met once or twice some time before.) Had this event not taken place or had I not gone I would never have found out who the 'strange man' was.
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