Three degrees of separation
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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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While visiting my sister-in-law on the Greek island of Spetses, summer of 2000, we ate in a restaurant where an English family was also dining. Their tow-headed 3-year-old son, Harry, was wandering around the restaurant making friends with everyone. Next day on the boat back to Athens, we saw the family again, and I fell to talking with Harry's dad. When he heard that we were from the Philadelphia area, he said, "I don't suppose you know a Quaker couple, John and Mary Smith, do you?" (Names changed) While I didn't know them personally, it turned out that I had taught their granddaughter in a Quaker school.
Date submitted:Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:11:07 +0000Coincidence ID:6666
