video haunts
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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 hired some VHS films and was watching one - it was not that good so I decided to flick through the TV channels instead. I became annoyed because never being good with technology I saw that I had merely paused the film, not cut back to the TV. However, that was not the case - on closer examination I realised that I had hired a film that was also shown on TV the same night and that I had started watching it at exactly the same time as it was being screened. Both the VHS and the programme were no more than 60 seconds apart.
Date submitted:Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:18:41 +0000Coincidence ID:5422
