Vivien Foster
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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.
Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.
I do not have an excessively large circle of acquaintances and friends but I know of 3 men who have married twice and each of these 3 men have lost both wives to cancer. The second wives did not live in the same houses/areas as the first wives that died previously.
I have now just read in last week's paper of the British swimmer Gemma Spofforth's mother dieing of cancer and since then her father's second wife has also died of cancer then the second wife's daughter has since died!
This to me seems too much of a coincidence - could the men be "carriers" I realise this is a "loaded" conclusion that presumably would not be made general public knowledge!
I do not wish to be quoted publicly i.e to remain anonymous. I am only interested in helping to find a cure to save pain and heartache.
Date submitted:Sat, 12 May 2012 06:29:54 +0000Coincidence ID:6336
