TRAVELLING DRESS
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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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Some years ago I was walking one quite Sunday afternoon through the streets of Kensington in London with my family and we passed a dress shop. In the window was a white dress decorated with blue dinner-plate size roundels of sailing ships. I admired it and stopped and told my family and we all looked at it and then moved on and forgot about it.
Three months later I was sent to work in Singapore and when settled in I gave a party. Guests included my English neighbour who brought his girl-friend. Looking at her I suddenly realised the dress seemed familiar. I asked her where she acquired it and it was indeed in Kensington, the one that had caught my eye six months earlier.
Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:43:46 +0000Coincidence ID:4138
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