Three Men in a Boat

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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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During the 1960s my cousin Ian Person, a young naval officer, was ordered to render assistance to a crashed US aircraft. With him in the boat was a diver and a medical officer, also named Pearson. The sunken aircraft was located, the diver went down to investigate and duly surfaced with the dead body of the American pilot. The pilot's name was written in large letters across the front of his flyinf suit "Lt PEARSON".
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