Train of events
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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.
Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.
In 1975 I was a student at Exeter. My home was a small village in the Swiss Alps. In the autumn I represented Exeter on University Challenge and met the producer Douglas Terry. That Christmas, as I did every holiday, I travelled up to London to take the Orient Express which, on its way to Istanbul would stop at the small town of Aigle, a 20 minute bus ride from my village. As I got into my booked second class seat in London I realised that the man booked in the next seat looked familiar. It was Douglas Terry with a ticket for Aigle on his way to spend Christmas at l'Abri, 5 minutes by car from where I lived. I have always found it very odd that our lives should intersect twice like this for unconnected reasons. Stephen Senn
Date submitted:Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:49:01 +0000Coincidence ID:6804
