Unexpected meeting
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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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I left Cambridge Univ when I graduated in 1962 and went to the USA. Two or three years later I briefly went on business to Palo Alto, CA, and while I was there my hosts took me to party. Another man at the party came up to me and said "You look familiar; were you in the Royal Marines?" I said I was (as I did two years of National Service between school and Cambridge) and we found we had served together. I was in Palo Alto for the weekend - and so was he! I don't recall where he lived, but it was not in CA. And I had grown a beard starting on the day I was discharged from the Marines; he had never seen me with it.
Date submitted:Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:11:17 +0000Coincidence ID:6006
