Unplanned encounters
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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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Back in the 70s when I was teaching biology at a local comprehensive school in Devon, my husband and I used to go to London most Easter holidays to stay with his brother, and then spend a couple of days exploring the city. One morning in Foyles I was browsing the biology text books when I looked up and saw my head of department ten feet away doing the same thing. Half an hour later, and still reeling from the coincidence, I rounded the corner in Charing Cross Road and ran into the Head of Art from the same school. When meeting up with someone at a prearranged time and place could still be fraught with difficulty, what chance of encountering two colleagues by chance in all of London's millions in just half an hour.
Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:58:23 +0000Coincidence ID:4056
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