Unpleasant but true

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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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Around ten years ago I picked up an infection which made it necessary to see a doctor. He gave me a prescription which I took to a chemists shop. As I entered the shop I was glad to see that there were no other customers. Because the shop was empty the assistant was tidying shelves and listening to a song from a cassette player. The coincidence was that the infection I had was scabies and the song was Frank Sinatra singing I've Got You Under My Skin.
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Date submitted:Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:14:43 +0000Coincidence ID:5926