Watching chance, reading chance
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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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Today, I was watching Professor David Spiegelhalter's BBC Four programme 'Tails you Win: The Science of Chance' which explained the difference in probability, randomness, chance and coincidence. As I was watching I then thought to myself that nothing has happened to me in a while that I would call a coincidence. As I continued to watch, I decided to read the news like I do every morning on the Sky News app and to my surprise one of the first news article headlines that was on the home page read "Anne Frank 'may have been captured by chance'". After hearing in the programme that this site existed, I thought I just had to post this. Not amazing but just thought "that's crazy"
Date submitted:Sat, 17 Dec 2016 11:24:42 +0000Coincidence ID:8966
