Tape or radio
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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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Several years ago I was playing some music off cassette in my car. I ejected the tape to listen to the radio, for a change. The track I was listening to carried on, and I thought the tape had failed to eject. What I then realised was that BBC Radio 2 was playing the same track at exactly the same time as me - synchronised so accurately that the beat and the lyrics weren't interrupted at all.
Date submitted:Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:46:48 +0000Coincidence ID:6238
