Valerie Chinnery
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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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re my adoption - finding out information only a few years ago, only to come across these coincidences - I am over 50yrs
1) my 'birth' fathers family came from the next (tiny) hamlet/ village from where I lived in Somerset for many years without realising
2) a 'real' cousin was a new partner ( newly from London) in the same solicitors office as my solicitor, in Somerset.
3) My 'real' father regularly went on holiday to the same place in Catalan as I used to sell property in
4) Both sides of my birth family have children the same age, and they both go to the same University at the same time ( Bristol) - but do not know this information
5) My boyfriend owed a property,and where I regularily stayed, in Bermondsey, opposite where my birth parents worked together .
6) I went to the doc a last year - didn't have long to wait, but meanwhile picked up a mag to kill time - like Grand Designs ... quickly read an article kept reading it, and it turned out to be about a property my half brother was 'doing up' in the Hamptons ( and who I was out of contact with for many years)
.... sure there are more - will add as I remember
Date submitted:Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:13:41 +0000Coincidence ID:6417
