Third and Fourth generations meet
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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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Having chosen (out of several possibilities) a school for our sons, my wife and I had an appointment to meet the headmaster. Introducing himself, he said "Yours is a very unusual name, I wonder if we are connected? My house is full of your family silver". Having arranged to visit his wife at their house, I found not only that there were items of my family's silver, but also portraits of my great grandfather and my great-great grandfather hanging on the walls. It turned out that the headmaster's wife is the great granddaughter of the eldest of four brothers, of whom my grandfather was the third.
Date submitted:Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:36:45 +0000Coincidence ID:5858
