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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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In the early 1980s I was living in Manchester. The phone rang early one morning. A voice asked to speak to Shani. I said they must have a wrong number. There was no one with that name here. They asked again for Shani. I told them that there was no Shani living here but that about 7 or more years ago I went to the same youth club as a Shani M who lived in Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucesterhire. (I've no idea why I told them that.) The voice on the end of the phone said that was the Shani they wanted to speak to.
I asked the caller to give my phone number to Shani if they got hold of her. That same evening I had a phone call from Shani and we met a day or so later. Shani was soon to move to Canada.
In fact about 5 years ago I met Shani again at a Youth Club reunion in Bourton-on-the-Water.
Date submitted:Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:29:52 +0000Coincidence ID:5419
