waiting for Donald
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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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Once I went to a gathering of musicians in central North Island, New Zealand with my then girlfriend who was a friend of most of those there and was doing the artwork for the compilation they were recording. In the evening I asked one duo where they got their name, "Waiting for Donald", because that was my name. They told me the year before they were on the ferry from the south island to the north island and the over the public address was an announcement trying to contact a passenger called Donald who apparently wasn't responding. This rang a bell in my mind and I asked them the date they travelled and it was the same as the day I had travelled on the ferry. The ferry people were trying to contact me to give me a message. I got into their next gig free, telling the doorman I was Donald and they were waiting for me :)
Date submitted:Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:58:24 +0000Coincidence ID:6300
