SURPRISNG NEIGHBOUR AT MEALS

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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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Some years ago I was on a cruise in the Far East and my neighbour at meals was a pleasant New Zealand lady. Several days in we started a discussion about living in London and I said I had live in Kensington. So had she. My home had been off Kensington High Street. So had hers. Mine was in Argyll Road. So was hers. Mine was No 33 and then I recalled that while my parents had been working abroad they had let the house to some New Zealand girls and she acknowledged was indeed one of them.
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