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As of the 23rd May 2022 this website is archived and will receive no further updates.

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 ta1king to friends after lunch, by the window of the refectory at the University College of North Wales, Bangor (in about 1964). We were talking about Mini travellers, and I said that my sister and her husband had a Mini van which had had windows and some mock wooden panelling added. I glanced out of the window and said, “Oh, there it is going along the main road now”. I had had no knowledge that my sister and brother-in-law were on holiday in North Wales – they lived in Surrey. - Francis Williamson
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